January 28, 2013

Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety (2013) | ~
Bardo Pond - Lapsed (1997) | ++
DJ Screw - 3 'n The Mornin' (Part Two) (1995) | +++
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (2012) | +/+
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds (2013) | ++/+
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam (1991) || 8.5
Momus - Timelord (1993) || 9
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994) || 8.5
Karriem Riggins - Alone Together (2012) || 7.5
Three Legged Race - Persuasive Barrier (2013) | ++
Wedding Present - Seamonsters (1991) | +/++

January 21, 2013
?????Virtual - 札幌コンテンポラリー (2012) || √
Black Dice - Mr. Impossible (2012) [x2] | +++/++
Brainiac - Electro-Shock For President EP (1997) || 8+
Burial - Kindred EP (2012) || 7.5
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper EP (2013) || 7.5
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (1984) | [++]/++
Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (2006) | √
Astrud Gilberto - The Shadow of Your Smile (1965) | ~
Glass Eye - Hello Young Lovers (1989) | Ө
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) || 7.5
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (2012) || 7.5-
Kitty Pryde - Haha I'm Sorry EP (2012) || 7.5
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe (2012) [x2] || 8
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds (2013) | ++
Mercury Rev - Boces (1993) | +↕
Momus - Timelord (1993) [x2] | ++++/++++
Moonshake - Eva Luna (1992) || 8+
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994) | [++]/+++
Pram - Iron Lung EP (1993) [x2] | +++/++
R.E.M. - Automatic For the People (1991) || 8
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) ||| 9
Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012) || √
Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992) || 8.5
C S Yeh - Transitions (2012) | +↕/+
Yo La Tengo - Fade (2013) | ++/+
Tom Ze - Todos Os Olhos (1973) | +++/+
John Zorn - Naked City (1990) | ++/++

January 14, 2013
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended (2012) || 8.5
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993) || 8.5- 
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST (1990) [x2] || 9
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) || 8+
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (1994) [Disc 1] || 7.5
Autechre - Incunabula (1993) || /\ 8.5
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped (1994) | ++
Blank Realm - Go Easy (2012) || 8
Boom Bip & Charlie White - Music For Sleeping Children EP (2013) || 7.5
Codeine - Frigid Stars (1990) | +
Leonard Cohen - The Future (1992) ||| 7.5 ≠ ("Waiting For The Miracle"
Aby Ngana Diop - Liital (1994) || 7.5
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993) || \/ 8
Haunted Houses - Invisible War of the Mind (2010) || 8.5
Ital - Dream On (2012) [x2] || 8.5
Lovesliescrushing - Bloweyelashwish (1993) | +
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam (1991) [x2] || 8.5
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (1998) || [√]
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka (1999) | ++
Purling Hiss - Hissteria (2010) || 7.5
Salt n Pepa - Very Necessary (1993) | +++
Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997) || [+]/++
Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995) || 8.5
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991) || 9
Ween - The Mollusk (1997) || 8
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (2013) || 7.5+

January 7, 2013
Amen Dunes - Dia (2009) ||| 9
Autechre - Incunabula (1993) || 8+
Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers (2008) || /\ 7.5
Bedhead - Transaction De Novo (1998) | +
Beta Band - The Beta Band (1999) | ++/++
Boom Bip & Charlie White - Music for Sleeping Children EP (2013) | ++/++
Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume (2011) || /\ 7.5
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack (1993) || 8.5+
Flying Saucer Attack - Further (1994) || 8.5
Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat (2013) | ++/++
Howling Hex - The Best of the Howling Hex (2013) | +
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (2002) || /\ 8
Pram - Gash EP (1992) || 9
Pram - Sargasso Sea (1995) | [+]
Sensational - Loaded With Power (1997) *ROTW* | +++
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) ||| 8.5
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) ||| 9
Spiritualized - Pure Phase (1995) || 8
Susan Balmar - CCG (2013) [x2] | ++/++
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (2013) [x2] | +/++
Neil Young - Dead Man OST (1996) || 9.5
Thalia Zedek - Via (2013) | ~

December 31, 2012
?????Virtual - 札幌コンテンポラリー (2012) | +/+
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 (2012) ||| 8
Azealia Banks – Fantasea (2012) [x2] | +++/++
Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (1981) | ++
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
Ursula Bogner - Sonne = Blackbox comp. (1970-1985) || 8
Burial – Kindred EP (2012) || 7.5
Burial – Truant/Rough Sleeper EP (2013) [x2] || 7.5
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful (2012) ||| 8+
Ital – Hive Mind | √≠ ("Doesn't Matter...")
Ital – Dream On (2012) | ++/+++
Luyas – Animator (2012) || ++/[~]
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe (2012) || /\ 8
Mediafired - The Pathway Through Whatever (2012) || 7.5+
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me? (2012) || 8
Mu - Afro Finger and Gel (2003) || 8.5
New Order – Movement (1981) | [+]/++
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) ||| 7.5
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) || 9
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) ||| 8

December 24, 2012
Antlers – Burst Apart (2011) [x2] ||| /\ 8
Belbury Poly – The Belbury Tales (2012) || 7.5+
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
David Thomas Broughton & 7 Hz - David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hz (2007) | ++
Built To Spill – There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994) || 8.5
Death Cab For Cutie – We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) || 7.5≠ ("Title Track")
Camper Van Beethoven – Key Lime Pie (1989) || 8
Clash – London Calling (1979) ||| 10
Enya – Enya (1986) || 7.5
Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes (2012) || 7.5
Frak – Musica Electronica (2012) [x2] | ++/+
Friendzone – Collection 1 (2012) || √
Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat (2013) | ++
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist (2012) || 7.5
Hood – Cycle of Days and Seasons (1999) | +++/+++
Mirrorring – Foreign Body (2012) | +
Modest Mouse – This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About (1996) | +/++
Moldy Peaches – Moldy Peaches (2001) || /\ 8.5
Moles - Untune the Sky (1991) || 8
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (2012) || 7.5
Sinead O'Connor – The Lion and the Cobra (1987) || 9
Perfume Genius – Learning (2010) ||| 8.5
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) || 7.5+
Pocahaunted – Make It Real (2010) | Ө
Karriem Riggins – Alone Together (2012) || 7.5
Sun City Girls – Dante's Disneyland Inferno (1998) ++/++
Tame Impala – Lonerism (2012) | +
Telstar Drugs – Telstar Drugs (2012) | ++
Mark Van Hoen – The Revenant Diary (2012) || /\ 8
Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (2004) ||| 8.5
Yo La Tengo – Fade (2013) | ++

December 17, 2012
Bee Mask - When We Were Eating Unripe Pears (2012) [x2] | +/+
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go (2006) || 8-
Bonobo - Dial M For Monkey (2003) | [+]/+
Books - The Lemon of Pink (2003) ||| 9
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper EP (2012) | ++
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (1996) | ++/++
Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) | ++/++
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) ||| 9
Faust - IV (1974) v. ||| 10
Hood - The Cycle of Days and Seasons (1999) | +++
Kitty Pryde - Haha I'm Sorry EP (2012) [x2] | ++/++
Love - Forever Changes (1967) ||| 9
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe (2012) [x3] || 7.5+
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992) || \/ 8
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain  (1994) ||| 8
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (1995) || 8.5
Replacements - Let It Be (1984) ||| 8.5
Replacements - Tim (1985) ||| 9
Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me (1987) || 7.5≠ ("Can't Hardly Wait")
Ravi Shankar - Music From India: Three Classic Ragas (1954) v. | ++
Sian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken Etc. (2009) || √
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can not Erase (2011) || 8.5+
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) ||| 8
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln (1988) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment (1979) v. | [+]
Tindersticks - The Something Rain  (2012) || 7.5
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (2012) [AP] | +/+
Wooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg (2005) || 8.5
C S Yeh - Transitions (2012) | +↕

December 10, 2012
Anika - Anika (2010) | +/++
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST (1990) | [++++]/++++
Autechre - Incunabula (1993) | [+]/+++
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996) ||| 9
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (2005) ||| 8-
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (1990) || 8
Dead C - Harsh 70s Reality (1992) | +++/+++
Disco Inferno - Technicolour (1996) | ++
Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks (1975) || 7.5≠ ("Tangled Up In Blue")

Elephant Micah - Louder Than Thou (2012) || /\ 8

Excepter - KA (2003) | ++
Excepter - Vacation EP (2004) | ++
Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty (1982) || 8

Felt - The Splendor of Fear (1984) | ++/+++

Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely World (1984) | +

Gas - Konigsforst (1999) | +
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season (2002) || 7.5
Grimes - Halfaxa (2010) | ++/++
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (2012) || 7.5
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) ||| /\ 9
Mediafired - The Pathway Through Whatever (2012) || 7.5
Micachu and the Shapes - Never (2012) || 8.5
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) ||| 10
Maja SK Ratkje - Cyborgic (2009) | +++
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (1999) || 8+
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986) ||| 9
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993) || 8
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997) || 8+
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. II: Judges (2011) ||| 9
Thee Oh Sees - The Cool Death of Island Raiders (2006) | +++/+++

Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons (2012) | ++/++

V/A (Irwin Chusid prod.) - Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music comp. (2000) | +++
V/A (Irwin Chusid prod.) - Songs in the Key of Z: Part 2 comp. (2002) | ++

December 3, 2012
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian (2003) || /\ 8
Can - Future Days (1973) || 7.5+
Durutti Column - LC (1981) || 8.5
Elg - Mil Pluton (2012) | +/++
Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty (1982) [x2] | +++/++
Felt - The Splendor of Fear (1984) | ++
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008) || 8
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (2012) || 8
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (2012) || 7.5
Spring Heel Jack - Amassed (2002) | ++/++
Stephen Steinbrink - Ugly Unknowns (2009) | [+]/++
Stereolab - Music For the Amorphous Body Study Center EP | ++/+++
Title Fight - Floral Green (2012) | [~]
Titus Andronicus - Local Flavor (2012) | +
Wooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg (2005) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Woods - Some Shame (2008) ||| 8.5-

November 26, 2012
?????Virtual - 札幌コンテンポラリー (2012) | +
American Analog Set - The Fun of Watching Fireworks (1996) ||| 8
American Analog Set - From Our Living Room to Yours (1997) || 8.5
American Analog Set - Know By Heart (2001) || 7.5+
Bebetunes$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) ||| 8.5
Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy? (1995) || 7.5
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) || 8.5
Chris Corsano - Cut (2012) || 7.5
D'Angelo - Voodoo (2000) |
Elg - Mil Pluton (2012) | +
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam (2011) || 7.5
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008) | +++/++
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (2012) [AP] | ++/++
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (2010) || /\ 7.5
Ian Martin - Mechanical Rain (2012) || √+
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me? (2012) || 8+
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom EP (2008) || 8
Music Tapes - Mary's Voice (2012) | ++/++
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991) | ~/+++

Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ Vol. 1 EP (2012) | ++/++

Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ Vol. 2 EP (2012) | ++/++

Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005) ||| 9
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire (1989) | [++]/+++
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1980) || 8
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974) | ~/++
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (2006) || 8.5

November 19, 2012
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended (2012) [x2] | +++/+++

Arrington De Dionyso - Songs of Psychic Fire Vol. 3 (2012) [AP] | +++/+++

Andrea Belfi - Wege (2012) || 8
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) ||| 8
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002) || /\ 9
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2006) || \/ 7.5
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984) || 8.5
Deftones - White Pony (2000) | √
Dinowalrus - Best Behavior (2012) | Ө
Elephant Micah - Louder Than Thou (2012) || 7.5
Four Tet - Rounds (2003) ||| 9
Gerbils - Are You Sleepy? (1998) | ++/++
Daughn Gibson - All Hell (2012) || 8
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) [x2] ||| 7.5
Mediafired - The Pathway Through Whatever (2012) || 7.5
Meta Meta - Metal Metal (2012) | ++↕/+
Minus the Bear - Infinity Overhead (2012) [x2] | Ө
Music Tapes - First Imaginary Symphony For Nomad (1999) | +/+
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me Oh My Soul (2011) ||| 8.5
Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (1994) || 7.5
Liz Phair - Funstyle (2010) || 7.5+
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) ||| 8
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012) || 8
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) ||| 8.5
Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving (2005) | +/+++
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (2012) | ++/+++
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) ||| 8
Jack White - Blunderbuss (2012) || 7.5
Windy and Carl - Drawing of Sound (1996) || 8
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (1980) ||| 9

November 12, 2012
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 (2012) || 8
Bjork - Debut (1993) | [+]/++
Bjork - Post (1995) ||| 9
Bjork - Homogenic (1997) || 8.5
Bjork - Vespertine (2001) || 8.5
Bjork - Medulla (2004) || 7.5
Blind Spots - El Camino Dream (2010) | ~
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (2012) | +
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (2007) ||| 8.5
Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca EP (2010) || \/ 7.5
Friendzone - Collection 1 (2012) | ++/+
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) || 7.5
Ital - Dream On (2012) | ++
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.AA.d City (2012) | +/+
Lantern - Dream Mine (2012) | ++
Le1f - Dark York (2012) || 8
Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter (2012) | ++
Meta Meta - Metal Metal (2012) | ++↕
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom EP (2008) | +/+++
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (2012) | ++/++
Music Tapes - Mary's Voice (2012) | ++
Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001) ||| 8.5
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) ||| 9.5
Sea and Cake - Nassau (1995) [x2] | +++/++
Shins - Oh Inverted World (2001) || 8
Sic - Thought Noises comp. (1979-1983) | +++
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind (1997) | ++
Tape Loop Orchestra - The Word on My Lips Is Your Name/The Burnley Brass Band Plays On In My Heart (2012) | +
Tom Recchion - Chaotica (1996) || 9
Yves/Son/Ace - Unsung (2012) [x2] | +++/+

November 5, 2012
Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) | ++
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) ||| [10]
Friendzone - Collection 1 (2012) | ++
Howling Hex - Wilson Semiconductors (2012) || /\ 8
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989) || 7.5
Le1f - Dark York | +++/++
Lil B - Gods Father (2012) || 8
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010) ||| 8
Mediafired - The Pathway Through Whatever (2012) | +/++
Dan Melchior - Excerpts and Half-Speeds (2012) || 7.5
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (2012) | ++
The National - High Violet (2010) || 7.5
Angel Olsen - Halfway Home (2012) || 7.5
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal (2012) | x
Polyps - Ants on the Golden Cone (2011) || 7.5
Pumice - I'll Take No Chance Near a Volcano (1997) | +++
Tom Recchion - Proscenium (2012) || \/ Ө≠ ("Lean Your Eye Into the Picture")
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993) || 8
Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995) || 8.5
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider (1998) || 8+
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (2010) ||| 8
Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt (2010) || 7.5
Volcano the Bear - Golden Rhythm/Ink Music (2012) | ++/+
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) || 8
Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) ||| 8.5
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997) ||| 10
Neil Young - Dead Man OST (1996) || 9

October 29, 2012
Blanche Blanche Blanche - Wink With Both Eyes (2012) || 8
Boom Bip & Charlie White - Music for Sleeping Children EP (2013) | ++
Alessandro Bosetti - Zwolfzungen (2010) || 8+
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets ||| [9.5]
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) || [7.5]
Hood - Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys (1998) || 8
J Dilla - Donuts (2006) || 8
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (2012) || /\ 8
Le1f - Dark York (2012) | +++
Lil B - White Flame (2012) | ++
R. Stevie Moore - Clack (1980) | ++
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (1986) || 9
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990) || 8
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011) || /\ 8.5
Andy Partridge & Harold Budd - Through the Hill (1994) [x2] || 7.5
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) || 8.5
Karriem Riggins - Alone Together (2012) | ++/++
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 1: Gens de Couleur Libres (2011) || 8
Swans - The Seer (2012) || 8.5
Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (2007) | Ө
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill (2012) | ++/++

October 22, 2012
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992) ||| /\ 8.5
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) || 7.5+
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (1996) || 7.5+
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) || 8
Tori Amos - To Venus and Back (1999) | +
Blanche Blanche Blanche - Wink With Both Eyes (2012) [x2] | +++/+++
Blank Realm - Go Easy (2012) | +++/++
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) ||| 9.5
Can - Ege Bamyasi (1972) || 9.5
Cooly G - Playin Me (2012) || 7.5
Luyas - Animator (2012) | ++
Dan Melchior - Excerpts and Half-Speeds (2012) || 7.5
Dan Melchior - The Backward Path (2012) || 7.5
Mr Lif - I Phantom (2002) | ++/+++
Angel Olsen - Half Way Home (2012) | ++/++
Pulse Emitter - Aeons (2012) | Ө
Tom Recchion - Chaotica (1996) | +++/++++
Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life (2012) | Ө
Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour (2012) || 9.5
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012) || 8
Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons (2012) | ++
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill (2012) | ++

October 15, 2012
Black Keys - Rubber Factory (2004) || 8 Blank Realm - Go Easy (2012) | +++
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975) [x2] ||| 10
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) | ++/++

(thought I'd be the first to claims of outdatedness, but their majesty's surprisingly relevant if always kinda spotty on record; moments slay, the Whole plops)

Ketamines - Spaced Out (2012) | ++

(psychic garage mold w/ 60s hihat warp a la Thee Oh Sees)

Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance 2012) | +

(if sweet but brooding Lytle can't figure out why the old magic isn't there anymore, neither the hell can I)

R. Stevie Moore - Delicate Tension (1978) || /\ 9
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (2012) || 8
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002) | +/++
Nas - Illmatic (1994) [x2] | ++/++
NWA - Straight Outta Compton (1988) | ++
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988) | [++]
Karriem Riggins - Alone Together (2012) | ++
Shackleton - Music For the Quiet Hour (2012) || 9.5
Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. (1998) | ++
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2006) || 8 Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012) [x2] | +++/+++

(some people on TMT see this as 2012's James Blake, but less chromatic and more chrome; female vocals mesmeric/captivating but exoticized, cold, I hear Snowman's swan song and obvs. Burial)

Swans - Children of God (1987) | +++

October 8, 2012
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now (2005) || 7.5
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010) || 7.5
Demdike Stare - Elemental Parts 1 & 2: Crysanthe & Violetta EP (2012) || 7.5
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (2012) || 8
Micachu and the Shapes - Never (2012) || 8.5
R. Stevie Moore - Delicate Tension (1978) || 8.5+
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012) || 7.5
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) || 7.5
Polysick - Digital Native (2012) | ++/+
Screaming Females - Ugly (2012) | ++/~
Swans - The Seer (2012) || 8.5

Total Control - Henge Beat (2011) || 8

October 1, 2012
Chris Corsano - Cut (2012) | +++/++
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) | ++
Grimes - Halfaxa (2010) | ++
Dan Melchior - The Backward Path (2012) | ++/+++
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (1987) | +++/+++
Portishead - Third (2008) ||| 9.5
Pumice - Puny (2012) || /\ 8
Swans - The Seer (2012) | +++/++++
Tall Firs - Out of It and Into It (2012) | √
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (2012) | ++

Tindersticks - II (1994) | +++
V/A (Soul Jazz) - New York Noise Vol 2: Music From the New York Underground comp. (1977-1984) || 8.5

September 24, 2012
Album Leaf - In A Safe Place (2004) | +
Blind Melon - Blind Melon (1992) | x
Cat Power - What Would The Community Think (1996) || 8.5
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (1994) | +++
Grimes - Visions (2012) ||| 8
Madalyn Merkey - Scent (2012) | +
Nation of Ulysses - 13-Point Program To Destroy America (1991) | +
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012) | [~]/++
Angel Olsen - Half Way Home (2012) | ++
Tom Recchion - Chaotica (1996) | +++
Tom Recchion - Proscenium (2012) || √
Tall Firs - Out of It and Into It (2012) | +
Tape-Beatles - Music With Sound (1990) | ++/++
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006) || [7.5+]

September 17, 2012
Afterhours - Hai Paura Del Buio (1997) | [~]
Antlers - Undersea EP (2012) | [+]/+
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol II (1994) | [++]/[++]
Autolux - Future Perfect (2004) || Ө≠ ("Turnstyle Blues")
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (2012) | +
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (2012) || /\ √
Make-Up - Save Yourself (1998) || [8+]
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and Cobra (1987) | +++
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975) ||| 9.5
Swans - The Seer (2012) | +++
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (2011) || 7.5+

September 10, 2012
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (2012) | ●
Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia (2002) | ++/++
Arrested Development - 3 Years 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of (1992) || 8.5
Arrested Development - Zingalamaduni (1994) [x2] || 7.5
Cooly G - Playin Me (2012) | ++/+
Chris Corsano - Cut (2012) | +++
Demdike Stare - Elemental Parts 1 & 2: Crysanthe & Violetta EP (2012) | ++/++
Demdike Stare - Elemental Part 3: Rose EP (2012) | ++/+
Demdike Stare - Elemental Part 4: Iris EP (2012) | ++/+

Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993) || 8

Enya - Enya (1986) | ++/++
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (2000) | ++/+
The Left - Gas Mask (2010) || 8
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel (2012) || 7.5

Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (2012) | Ө

Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary (2012) || 7.5+

YYU - Timetimetime&time (2012) || 8

September 3, 2012
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (2012) | x
Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore - Ku Klux Glam (2012) | +/+
Bill Baird - Career (2012) || 7.5
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales (2012) || 7.5
Bodyguard - Silica Gel (2012) | ++/~
Cooly G - Playin Me (2012) | ++
Elephant Micah - Louder Than Thou (2012) | +/++
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (2012) | √
Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes (2012) | +/+
Daughn Gibson - All Hell (2012) || 8
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (2002) | ++/+
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) ||| 8.5
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (2012) | Ө
Lower Dens - Nootropics (2012) || 7.5
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) || 8.5
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me? (2012) [x2] || 8
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (2012) || 8

Tom Recchion - Proscenium (2012) | √

Shackleton - Music For the Quiet Hour (2012) || /\ 9.5
Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ Vol. 1 EP (2012) | ++
Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ Vol. 2 EP (2012) | ++
Spiritualized - Pure Phase (1995) | +++/++
Pete Swanson - Man With Potential (2012) || 8.5

August 27, 2012
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (1982) || 9.5
Antlers - Hospice (2009) ||| 9

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (2012) [x2] | +/+

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966) ||| 9
Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1971) | +/++
Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993) || 8
Fresh and Onlys - Long Slow Dance (2012) | ~
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (2012) | ~
Jens Lekamn - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (2004) | [+]/+
Samara Lubelski - Wavelength (2012) | +
Ian Martin - Mechanical Rain (2012) | ~/++
Dan Melchior - The Backward Path (2012) | ++
Notwist - Neon Golden (2002) ||| 8.5
Portastatic - Slow Note From a Sinking Ship (1995) | +/+
Peaking Lights - Lucifer (2012) | √
Tom Recchion - Proscenium (2012) | ~
Shackleton - Music For the Quiet Hour (2012) || 9
Smiths - Meat Is Murder (1985) | [++]/++
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986) || 8
Spiritualized - Pure Phase (1995) | +++
Stereolab - Fab Four Suture (2006) || 7.5
Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) ||| 8.5
The Who - A Quick One (1966) || 8
The Who - ...Sell Out (1967) || 9
The Who - Who's Next (1971) ||| 8
Wilco - Being There (1996) | ++/[+]

August 20, 2012
Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool (2012) | ~
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II (2012) || 8
Deus - Worst Case Scenario (1994) | ++
Dinowalrus - Best Behavior (2012) | ~
Foals - Antidotes (2008) | Ө
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967) | +++
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me? (2012) | ++
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (2011) ||| 8+
Dan Melchior - King of Sheep (2011) || 7.5
Micachu and the Shapes - Never (2012) [x2] || 8.5
My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy (1987) ||| 8
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) ||| 8
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) ||| 8.5
Shabazz Palaces - Shabazz Palaces EP (2009) | +++
Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan (2008) | ++/+++
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (2012) | ~
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats (1995) || 7.5
YYU - Timetimetime&time (2012) || 8

August 13, 2012
Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (2000) ||| 8-
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming (1994) | [~]
Radiohead - Kid A (2000) ||| /\ 10
U2 - The Best of 1980-1990 comp. (1980-1990) ||| 8

August 6, 2012
Ahnnu - Couch (2012) | +/+

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012) [x2] || 8

Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV (2012) || 8
Butterglory - Crumble (1994) | ++/++
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2010) || 7.5
Johnny Dowd - No Regrets (2012) | +
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2010) ||| 8+

Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (2000) | ++

Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| 9.5

Meat Puppets - Mirage (1987) | √

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (1988) || 8.5

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (2010) || 7.5

Skeletonbreath - Louise (2006) | ~

Swell - 41 (1994) | ++/++

Total Control - Henge Beat (2011) | +++/+++

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) || 8

July 30, 2012
Akron/Family - Akron/Family (2005) || 8.5
Alcoholic Faith Mission - Ask Me This (2012) || 7.5
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine [Jon Brion Version] bootleg. (2005) | ++
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012) | ++/+++
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) ||| 8.5
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (1977) ||| 9
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (2012) || √
Abner Jay - Last Ole Minstrel Man comp. (1994) || 8
Mediafired - THe Pathway Through Whatever (2012) | +
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise EP (1988) | ++
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (1988) | ++/+++
 Portastatic - Slow Note From a Sinking Ship (1995) | +
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) ||| 8.5
Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour (2012) || 9+
Patti Smith - Horses (1975) | +++/++
Swell - 41 (1994) | ++
Total Control - Henge Beat (2011) | +++
200 Years - 200 Years (2011) || /\ 8
Kanye West - Late Registration (2005) ||| 8.5
Kanye West - Graduation (2007) | [√]
YYU - Timetimetime&time (2012) | +++/++

July 23, 2012
Actress - Splazsh (2010) | +/+
Broken Water - Tempest (2012) | +
Butterglory - Crumble (1994) | ++
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) ||| 9.5
Caroliner - Rise of the Common Woodpile (1987) || 8.5
Deerhoof - Reveille (2002) | +++/++
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) || 8.5
Micachu and the Shapes - Never (2012) [x2]  *ROTW* | ++++/+++
Men - Open Your Heart (2012) || 7.5
Lou Reed - Transformer (1970) || 7.5
Roots - Illadelph Halflife (1996) [x2] | +++/+++
Shackleton - Music For the Quiet Hour (2012) | ++++/+++
Yo La Tengo - Painful (1993) ||| 9.5
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000) ||| 9.5
YYU - Timetimetime&time (2012) | +++


July 16, 2012
Alcoholic Faith Mission - Ask Me This (2012) | +/++
AMM - AMMMusic (1966) | ~
Ceschi - One Man Band Broke Up (2010) | +
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (2012) [x2] | +/+
Daughn Gibson - All Hell (2012) [x2] || 8
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997) ||| 10

July 9, 2012
Amen Dunes - Dia (2009) ||| 9
Amen Dunes - Murder Dull Mind EP (2010) | ++
Amen Dunes - From Donkey Jaw (2011) ||| 8
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) | +++/++
Caroliner - Rise of the Common Woodpile (1987) || 8.5+
Flipper - Album: Generic Flipper (1982) | ++
Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969) | +++
Lil B - Im Gay (Im Happy) (2011) || 8
Lil B - Gods Father (2012) | +++/++
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012) | [~]
Pete Swanson - Man With Potential (2012) || 8.5
Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour (2012) | ++++
SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of... (2012) || \/ 7.5
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) | ++/++
Wipers - Youth of America (1981) || 8.5


July 2, 2012
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) | +++
Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece (2002) || [8.5]
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (1994) [x2] | ++/+
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) || [8.5]
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989) ||| 9
Glass Eye - Hello Young Lovers (1989) | ~
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (1994) || 8.5
Half Japanese - Charmed Life (1988) || 9
Men - Open Your Heart (2012) | +/[++]
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (1987) [x2] ||| /\ 9
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990) || 8+
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) ||| 8.5
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986) ||| 9
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997) || 8.5


June 25, 2012
Antlers - Hospice (2009) ||| 9

El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (2012) | +↕

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || /\ 9

Bill Baird - Career (2012) | ++/++
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000) || 8

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya (1981) || 8.5+
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008) | +++
Hood - Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys (1998) || 8
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (2012) | +++/++
Lil B - Gods Father (2012) | +++
Peaking Lights - Lucifer (2012) | +
Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (1969) | +
SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of... (2012) || 8
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990) ||| 9
Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - 28 (2005) || 7.5
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard (2012) | + The Who - A Quick One (1966) | ++/+++

June 18, 2012
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012) | ++
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980) || 7.5
Caroliner - The Rise of the Common Woodpile (1987) | ++/++++
Gastr Del Sol - Crookt, Crackt, or Fly (1994) | ++/+++
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) | +/+

Harry Pussy - A: In an Emergency You Can Shit on a Puerto Rican Whore EP (1993) || 7.5

Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (2012) || 7.5+
Men - Open Your Heart (2012) | +
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Roman Reloaded (2012) || √
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel (2012) | ++/+
Pete Swanson - Man With Potential (2012) | +++/+++
Sianspheric - The Color of the Sound of the Sun  (2001) | +
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Grandfather Harmonic (2012) | +/+
Supersilent - 6 (2003) || 9.5
Vampire Rodents - Lullaby Land (1993) | [++]/++
Jack White - Blunderbuss (2012) | ++/++

June 11, 2012
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) || 8
Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes (2012) | +
Harry Pussy - A: In an Emergency You Can Shit on a Puerto Rican Whore EP (1993) | +/++
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel (2012) | ++
Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics (2012) | +
Mu - Afro Finger and Gel (2003) | +++/++++
Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? comp. (1927-9) | ++
Polysick - Digital Native (2012) | ++
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011) || 7.5
Screaming Females - Ugly (2012) | ++
SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of... (2012) [x2] || 8
Pete Swanson - Man With Potential (2012) | +++
Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving (2012) | +
Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi (2008) || 8
Neil Young - Dead Man OST (1996) | +++/++++

June 4, 2012
Beach House -  Bloom (2012) | √
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV (2012) || 8+
Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Reve (2004) || /\ 8
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful (2012) || 8
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) ||| 8.5
Gary War - Jared's Lot (2012) | +
Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist (2010) || 7.5
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) || 8.5
Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001) | +++
Dan Melchior - Excerpts and Half-Speeds (2012) v. || 7.5+
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) || 7.5
Phedre - Phedre (2012) || 7.5
Scrawl - Travel On, Rider (1996) || 8
SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of... (2012) | ++
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) || 8
Strings of Consciousness - From Beyond Love (2012) | ~
Teen Daze - All Of Us, Together (2012) | [~]
Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1998) || \/ 8
Volcano the Bear - Golden Rhythm/Ink Music (2012) | ++
Ween - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (1990) || 8
Ween - The Pod (1991) ||| /\ 9
White Stripes - De Stijl (2000) ||| 8
Women - Public Strain (2010) || 8+

May 28, 2012
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV (2012) || 8
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly (2004) || 7.5
Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970) | ++/+
Demdike Stare - Elemental (2012) | ++
Deus - In a Bar, Under the Sea (1996) || 8.5
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) [x3] || 8.5
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990) || 8
M.I.A. & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Volume One (2004) | ++
Nod - I'm Around (1995) || 8
Dylan Nyoukis - The Shield That Pierces the Earth (2000) | +/++
Pumice - Puny (2012) || \/ 7.5 [TMT]
Sugarcubes - Stick Around for Joy (1992) | √
Vitalic - OK Cowboy (2005) | [+++]
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) || 8+

May 21, 2012
Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore - Ku Klux Glam (2012) | [+]
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful (2012) || 8
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) ||| 8.5
Daughn Gibson - All Hell (2012) [x2] | ++/++
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) | +++/+++
Ian Martin - Mechanical Rain (2012) | ~
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) || /\ 8.5
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2007) || √
Roots - Undun (2012) | +
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love (2005) | ++
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) ||| 10

May 14, 2012
Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian (2003) || 7.5+
Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000) || /\ 8.5
Beatles - Abbey Road (1970) ||| 9.5
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) || 8.5
Bjork - Post (1995) || 9
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV (2012) | +++/++
Blur - Parklife (1994) || [8]
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (1977) ||| 9
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) ||| 10
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) ||| 7.5
Grimes - Visions (2012) ||| 8
Lower Dens - Nootropics (2012) | [+]/++
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (2012) | ++/++
Phedre - Phedre (2012) || 7.5
Pumice - Puny (2012) || 8-
Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012) | ++/+
Sleep - Dopesmoker (2003) | +++
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (2011) || 8.5
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993) ||| /\ 10
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) ||| /\ 9.5
Tindersticks - The Something Rain (2012) | ++/+
War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008) ||| 8.5
Jack White - Blunderbuss (2012) | ++

May 7, 2012
Alcoholic Faith Mission - Ask Me This (2012) | +
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || 8.5+
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989) || 8
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV (2012) | +++
David Bowie - Heroes (1977) | [++]/++

David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency (2005) ||| 10

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (2011) ||| [7.5]

Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs comp. (1992-1994) || /\ 9.5
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000) | [+]/++
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (2006) ||| 8
Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012) | +++
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Roman Reloaded (2012) | +
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. II: Judges (2011) ||| 9
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite (1998) || 8.5
White Suns - Sinews (2012) | ~
Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads (2012) [x2] | √
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents (1977) | ++/++

April 30, 2012
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) || 8.5
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales (2012) | +/++
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005) ||| 8.5
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs comp. (1992-1994) || 9
Dr. John - Gris Gris (1968) | ++
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999) [x2] ||| 9
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8-
Howling Hex - Wilson Semiconductors (2012) || 7.5
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (2012) | ++
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) || 8.5
Andy Partridge & Harold Budd - Through the Hill (1994) | +/++
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (2005) || 7.5
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) || \/ 8

April 23, 2012
Clash - London Calling (1979) ||| 10
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984) || 8.5
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful (2012) [x2] | +++/+++
Enya - Paint the Sky With Stars comp. (1987-1997) || /\ 8
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) || 7.5+
Make-Up - Save Yourself (1999) || 8
Van Morrison - Moondance (1970) || 8
Ken Nordine - The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1 comp. (1957-1960) || 9
Ken Nordine - Colors (1966) || 7.5
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (1987) || 8.5+
Quakers - Quakers (2012) | ++
Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012) | ++
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) || 8.5-
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000) ||| 9.5


April 16, 2012
Beatles - The Beatles (1968) ||| 10
Andrea Belfi - Wege (2012) || 8+
Blues Control - Blues Control (2007) | +++/++
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis (1998) || 8
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (1975) || 7.5+
Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982) [x2] || 7.5
New Pornographers - Together (2010) | ~
Phedre - Phedre (2012) || 7.5
Social Distortion - Social Distortion (1990) | Ө
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) [x2] | +++/++++
Yo La Tengo - Painful (1993) ||| 9.5

April 9, 2012
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (2009) || 8
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002) ||| 9
Burial - Untrue (2007) || [8.5]
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (2007) ||| 8
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) || 8
Phedre - Phedre (2012) | ++/++
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || 8.5
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (1969) v. | ++

April 2, 2012
Blues Control - Blues Control (2007) | +++
Can - Monster Movie (1969) || 9
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (1996) || 8.5
Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998) | +/+
Dan Friel - Ghost Town (2008) || 8
Legendary Pink Dots - Seconds Late for the Brighton Lane (2010) || 7.5+
Lower Dens - Nootropics (2012) | [+]
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989) ||| 7.5
Josh T. Pearson - The Last of the Country Gentlemen (2011) || √
Phedre - Phedre (2012) | ++
Pumice - Puny (2012) || 8
Radiohead - The Bends (1995) ||| 10
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) || [9]
Scrawl - Smallmouth (1990) || √
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) || [8]
Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) || 8.5
Wussy - Wussy (2009) ||| 8

March 26, 2012
Beach House - Bloom (2012) | ~
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales (2012) | +
Bodyguard - Silica Gel (2012) | ++
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On (1997) ||| [9]
Dean Blunt - The Narcisssist II (2012) || 8
Dinowalrus - % (2010) ||| 8.5
Dolphins Into the Future - Canto Arquipelago (2012) | +
Fugees - The Score (1996) || 8.5
Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) || 7.5
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis (1998) || 8+
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) || 8.5+
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (2004) || 8
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (1990) || 9
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Grandfather Harmonic (2012) | +
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (2010) || 8-

March 19, 2012
Beach House - Beach House (2006) || 8
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (1987) [x2] || 8.5+
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical (2011) || Ө
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) ||| 8.5
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) || 7.5
Magma - Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh (1973) | √
Pumice - Puny (2012) | +++/++
R.E.M. - Murmur (1983) || 8
R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984) v. | ++/++
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || /\ 8.5
White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001) ||| 8.5

March 12, 2012
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973) || 7.5
Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald) (2012) | +
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II (2012) || 8
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (2011) | ++
L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan (2011) || 8.5
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N2 It (2012) || 7.5
Pumice - Puny (2012) | +++
Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs (1993) | +++/[++]
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005) ||| 8.5
Swan Lake - Beast Moans (2006) ||| \/ 7.5
Tindersticks - The Something Rain (2012) | ++

March 5, 2012
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992) || 8+
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele (1996) || 7.5
Bill Baird - Career (2012) | ++
Andrea Belfi - Wege (2012) | +++/+
David Bowie - Low (1977) ||| 9
Brainiac - Electro-Shock for President EP (1997) | +++/+++
Grimes - Visions (2012) ||| 8
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) || 7.5
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (2010) | +/+
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (2012) | Ө
Lil B - Im Gay (Im Happy) (2011) || 8
Make-Up - Save Yourself (1999) | +++/++
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) || 8+
Moby - Play (1999) || √+
Scout Niblett - The Calcination Of... (2010) || 8
Pulp - Different Class (1995) | ++/++
Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs (1993) | +++
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop (2001) ||| 9.5
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991) | [+]/++

February 27, 2012
Andrea Belfi - Wege (2012) | +++
Burial - Kindred EP (2012) || 7.5
Cocorosie - La Maison de Mon Reve (2004) || 7.5+
Deus - In a Bar Under the Sea (1996) || 8.5
Dragging An Ox Through Water - Tropics of Phenomenon (2008) || 8
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) || 8.5
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (2006) ||| 8
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) | ++/++
Larkin Grimm - Parplar (2008) | +/+
Make-Up - Save Yourself (1999) | +++
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) [x2] | ++/++
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979) v. ||| 9.5
Pram - Gash EP (1992) || 9
Pram - Helium (1994) || 7.5+
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) | ++/++
Woods - At Rear House (2007) | ++/++
Woods - Some Shame (2008) ||| 8.5
Woods - At Echo Lake (2010) | +

February 20, 2012
Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire (2012) | √
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun (2000) | +/+
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) [x2] || 8.5
Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) v. || 8
Chicago Underground Duo - Age of Energy (2012) || 7.5
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II (2012) [x2] | ++/++
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) || 8.5
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE (2012) | Ө
Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1972) || 9+
Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012) | ++
Howling Hex - Wilson Semiconductors (2012) [x2] | +++/++
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (2012) | +
Lil B - Blue Eyes (2012) | Ө
Dan Melchior - Excerpts and Half-Speeds (2012) v. | +/++
Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar (1996) || 8.5
Thanksgiving - 2012 (2012) | √
200 Years - Holyoke (2012) | ~
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) || 8 [TMT]
Velvet Monkeys - Rotting Corpse Au Go-Go comp. (1981-1983) | ++
Windy and Carl - We Will Always Be (2012) | √
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) ||| 8
Zomes - Improvisations (2012) | Ө

February 13, 2012
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (2006) || 7.5+
Burial - Kindred EP (2012) [x2] | +++/+++
Chicago Underground Duo - Age of Energy (2012) | +++/++
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand (1986) | +/+
Cocteau Twins - Milk and Kisses (1996) || 7.5+
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987) || 7.5
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind (1992) | ~
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) ||| 8.5
Grimes - Geidi Primes (2010) | +/++
Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer (1970) || 8.5
National - Alligator (2005) ||| 9.5
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba (1988) | ++/++
Philippe Petit - Oneiric Rings on Grey Velvet (2012) | ++
Pixies - Doolittle (1989) ||| 10
Pulse Emitter - Aeons (2012) | ~
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (1991) || 7.5
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (2011) || 8.5
Radiohead - Kid A (2000) ||| 9.5
Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life (2012) | x
Tyme x Tujiko - GYU (2012) | x
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) || 8

February 6, 2012
Ahnnu - Couch (2012) | +
Ursula Bogner - Sonne = Blackbox comp. (1970-1985) | ++/++
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) v. ||| 9.5
Can - Tago Mago (1971) [Disc 1] || 9
Can - Ege Bamyasi (1972) || 9.5
Chicago Underground Duo - Age of Energy (2012) | +++
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks (1977) [x2] || 8
Clouddead - Clouddead (2001) || 8.5
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969) || 9
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run (2007) | ++
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970) ||| 9
John Lennon - Imagine (1971) ||| 9
McLusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire (2004) || 7.5
Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks (2012) | ~
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues (1995) || /\ 8
Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart (2010) || 8
Spielgusher - Spielgusher (2012) | x
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) ||| 9+
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997) || 8
U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Column (2002) || 8.5

January 30, 2012
B-52's - The B-52's (1979) | ++
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980) | +/+
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) | ++/+++
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical (2011) | Ө
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8
Ital - Hive Mind (2012) | +/+
Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007 (2005) || 7.5
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (2012) || 7.5
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968) ||| 10
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville (1979) | ++/+++
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra) || 10
Terrors - Lagan Qord comp. (2011) || 8
Thanksgiving - 2012 (2012) | +
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) || /\ 8
Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary (2012) | ++/~
Neil Young - Dead Man OST (1996) | +++

January 23, 2012
Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire (2012) | +
Broadcast - Haha Sound (2003) ||| 8.5
Elephant Micah - Louder Than Thou (2012) | +
Jad Fair & Hifiklub & kptmichigan - Bird House EP (2012) | +
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009) | ++
Fire Show - Saint The... (2002) || 8.5
Gowns - Red State (2007) | ++
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8 [TMT]
Internet - Purple Naked Ladies (2012) | [+]/+
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) || 8
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (1999) || 8
Sebadoh - III (1991) || 9
Tall Dwarfs - Hello Cruel World comp. (1981-1984) | +++
Tall Dwarfs - Dogma EP (1988) | ++
Women - Public Strain (2010) || 8

January 16, 2012
Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia (2002) | ++
Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers (2008) || √
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987) ||| 9
Doozer - Keep It Together (2012) | Ө
Ga'an - Ga'an (2009) || /\ 8
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8
Hype Williams - One Nation (2011) || 7.5
L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan (2011) || 8.5
Pumice - Quo (2008) | +++/+++
Purling Hiss - Hissteria (2010) | +/++
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011) || 7.5
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) ||| 8.5
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. II: Judges (2011) ||| 9
Terrors - Lagan Qord comp. (2011) [x2] | +++/++
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) || 9
Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary (2012) | ++
Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric (1978) || 7.5

January 9, 2012
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend (2001) || √
Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester (2012) [x2] | √
American Analog Set - Know By Heart (2001) || 7.5
B. Dolan - The Failure (2008) | +
Bebetune$ - Inhale C-4 $$$$$ (2012) | ++
Beck - One Foot In the Grave (1994) | ++/[+]
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) || 8
Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons (2002) | ++
Calexico - THe Black Light (1998) | Ө
Calla - Scavengers (2001) | Ө
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory (2012) | ~
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000) || 7.5
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE (2012) | ~
Grimes - Geidi Primes (2010) | +
Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes (2008) ||| 8.5
Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave (2012) [x2] | +/+
Pumice - Pebbles (2007) || /\ 9
Pumice - Quo (2008) | +++
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992) | ++/++
Replacements - Let It Be (1984) ||| 8.5+
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Sweet Honey in the Rock (1976) | +
Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving (2005) | +
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) || 7.5+
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) v. ||| 9.5
Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (1973) | ++/~

January 2, 2012
Afghan Whigs - 1965 (1998) | +
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) ||| 8.5-
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980) | +
Blur - 13 (1999) ||| 8
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady comp. (1977-1979) | [++]/++
Chromeo - She's in Control (2004) | ++
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade and Afterlife (1996) || 8.5+
Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home (1995) || √
Grimes - Visions (2012) || 8
Grouper - A I A (2011) ||| 8
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) | +
Has-Lo - In Case I Don't Make It (2011) || /\ 8
Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun (1994) || 8.5
Monks - Black Monk Time (1966) || 9+
My Morning Jacket - Z (2005) || √
O Paon - Courses (2010) || 8-
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (2012) | ++/++
Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (1994) || 7.5
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (2010) | Ө
Pigeons - They Sweetheartstammers (2011) || √ [TMT]
Prince - Purple Rain (1984) | [++]/++
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline EP (1993) | +/+
Stereolab - Ping Pong EP (1994) | +/+
Stereolab - Wow and Flutter EP (1994) | ++/++
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (2010) | √
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra (2011) | ~
Jason Urick - I Love You (2012) [x2] | ++/++
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me (1977) | ↕/++
Neil Young - Le Noise (2010) || 7.5-

December 26, 2011
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) v. || 9
Gang of Four - Entertainment (1979) v. || [7.5-]
Gareth Dickson - The Dance (2011) | +
Doozer - Keep It Together (2012) | ~
Feed Me - Feed Me's Big Adventure (2010) | +
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack (1993) || 8.5
Grimes - Visions (2012) | ++/++
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is (2002) | ~
Ital - Hive Mind (2012) | +
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011) || 8
Internet - Purple Naked Ladies (2012) | [+]
Lil B - Blue Eyes (2012) | ~
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) || 8.5
Pontiak - Echo Ono (2012) | +
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011) | ++
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990) ||| 9
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) || 8.5
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) || /\ 8
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) ||| 10
Windy and Carl - We Will Always Be (2012) | ~

December 19, 2011
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || 8.5
The Cure - Disintegration (1989) | [++]/[++]
Grimes - Visions (2012) | ++
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia (1974) || 7.5
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (2012) | ++
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of... (1998) | +/+
L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan (2011) [x2] | +++/+++
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (2011) || 8
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) ||| 9.5
Prince Rama - Trust (2011) [x2] | [+]/++
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) ||| 8.5
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (2011) || [8.5]
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) v. || 8
Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart (2005) | ++/++
Weeknd - House of Balloons (2011) | +/+
Zomes - Improvisations (2012) | ~

December 12, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8
Sam Amidon - I See the Sign (2010) || 7.5
Antlers - Burst Apart (2011) || 7.5
Beets - Stay Home (2011) | ++/+
Ursula Bogner - Sonne = Blackbox comp. (1970-1985) | ++
Danny Brown - XXX (2011) || √
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) || 7.5≠ ("Hallelujah")
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) ||| 9.5
Califone - Roomsound (2001) ||| 8.5
Circle - Meronia (1994) | ~
FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain (2011) | √
First Dog To Visit the Center of the Earth - Colossus Archosaur | ~/++
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) || 8.5
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (2010) | ++
Iceage - New Brigade (2011) | ++/~
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) || 8
No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (2001) | ~
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011) || 8
Orb - Blue Room Single (1992) | +++
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) ||| 9.5+
Robyn - Robyn (2005) | +
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash (2007) | +/+
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2011) | Ө
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988) || 9
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite (1998) | ++/+++
Suicide - Suicide (1977) || 8
Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles (1986) || 8.5
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988) || 9.5
200 Years - 200 Years (2011) || 7.5
Kanye West - Late Registration (2005) || 8.5

December 5, 2011
Ali Farka Toure - The River (1990) | ++
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992) || /\ 8
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) || 7.5
Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996) || 8
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) v. || /\ 9.5
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (1996) || 8.5
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) ||| 8.5
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (2004) | [+]/++
Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze (2010) | ++
Kayo Dot - Coyote (2010) | ~
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) || 8
Outkast - Aquemini (1998) | [++]/++
Smog - Wild Love (1995) | [+]/+
Tinariwen - Amassakoul (2004) | ++/+

November 28, 2011
Africa HiTech - 93 Million Miles (2011) || 7.5+
James Blake - CMYK EP (2010) | +/++
James Blake - Klavierwerke EP (2010) | ++
James Blake - The Bells Sketch EP (2010) | ++
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (1996) [x2] | +++/++
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) ||| 7.5 [TMT]
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2011) | +/+
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) || 9
Devo - Duty Now For the Future (1979) *ROTW* | +++
Aby Ngana Diop - Liital (1994) | ++/++
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl (2010) | ++/+
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul (2011) || 8.5
Field - Looping State of Mind (2011) | ~
Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010) | +
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous (2011) [x2] | +++/++
Nostalgia 77 - The Sleep Walking Society (2011) || √
Pigeons - They Sweetheartstammers (2011) || √
Prince - Parade (1986) || 8.5
Tyler the Creator - Goblin (2011) | ++/+
Tom Waits - Bad As Me (2011) | +

November 21, 2011
Adele - 21 (2011) | +
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs || \/ 7.5
Braids - Native Speaker (2011) | Ө
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011) | ~
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws (2011) ||| [8]
Lil B - Im Gay (Im Happy) (2011) || 8
Dan Melchior - King of Sheep (2011) || \/ 7.5
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon (1970) v. | ++/++
Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971) v. || 8
Radiohead - Kid A (2000) ||| 9.5
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011) || [7.5]
Rafter - Quiet Storm (2011) || 8
Nina Simone - Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit comp. (1967-1969) | +++/+++

November 14, 2011
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (2011) | √
David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding (2011) || 8
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) || \/ 7.5
Edan - Beauty and the Beat (2005) || 8.5
Four Tet - Rounds (2003) ||| [8.5]
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (2011) || 7.5
Bridget Hayden - A Siren Blares In An Indifferent Ocean (2011) | +/+
Jenny Hval - Viscera (2011) || 7.5+
Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (2011) | Ө
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 (2011) || 7.5
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (2002) || 7.5
Lil B - Im Gay (Im Happy) (2011) || 8
Mesita - Here's to Nowhere (2011) | Ө
Micachu and the Shapes & London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) || 8
Moon Wiring Club - Somewhere a Fox Is Getting Married (2011) | +
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011) || 8
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || 8
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol II: Judges (2011) ||| 9
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs (1991) || 8.5
200 Years - 200 Years (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) ||| 8

November 7, 2011
A Winged Victory For the Sullen - A Winged Victory For the Sullen (2011) | +
Bjork - Biophilia (2011) || √
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
Kate Bush - Never For Ever (1980) | +++/+++
Clash - Combat Rock (1982) | [+]/+
DJ Diamond - Flight Muzik (2011) || 8
Emperor X - Western Teleport (2011) || 7.5 [TMT]
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) || 8
Has-Lo - In Case I Don't Make It (2011) [x2] || 7.5+
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) || 8.5
Iceage - New Brigade (2011) | ++
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) || /\ 8
Jesus Lizard - Goat (1991) || 8
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Back From the Brink comp. (1973-1979) [2] | ~
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011) | [+]/+
Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes II (2011) | +/+
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (2011) | √-
Sean McCann - Open Resolve (2010) || 7.5
Sean McCann - The Capital (2011) || 8
Natural Snow Buildings - Waves of the Random Sea (2010) | +/++
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006) || 8
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul (2011) || 8.5
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) || /\ 8.5
Polyps - Ants on the Golden Cone (2011) | +/+
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (2011) || 8
Shadow Ring - Wax-Work Echoes (1994) *ROTW* | +++/+++
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep On the Floodplain (2011) || \/ √
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (2011) || 8.5
War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008) ||| 8.5-
War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (2011) | +/+
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994) ||| 8.5

October 31, 2011
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums (2004) | ++/+
Bjork - Biophilia (2011) | [++]/+
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night (1997) | +
Clouddead - Clouddead (2001) || 8.5
Emperor X - Tectonic Membrane/Thin Strip on an Edgeless Platform (2004) | ++/++
Eric's Trip - Forever Again (1994) | +/++
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (1970) || 8
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak (1999) || 8+
Kwjaz - Kwjaz (2011) | +
Lil B - Im Gay (Im Happy) (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Ewan MacColl - Antiquities comp. (1972-1986) || 7.5
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000) ||| 9.5
Neu - 75 (1975) || 8.5
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011) || 8-
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990) | [+]/++
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives || 9
UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996) | ++
Wipers - Youth of America (1981) | +++/+++

October 24, 2011
Ant-Bee - Pure Electric Honey (1990) | +
Bark Psychosis - Hex (1994) | +/+
Beatles - Abbey Road (1970) ||| 9.5
Boredoms - Pop Tatari (1993) | [++]/[++]
Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970) | ++
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) || \/ 7.5
Aby Ngana Diop - Liital (1994) | ++
Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear (2006) || 8
Emperor X - Tectonic Membrane/Thin Strip on an Edgeless Platform (2004) | ++
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) ||| 9
Eric's Trip - Forever Again (1994) | +
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011) | +/++
Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973) | ++++/++
Hood - Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys (1998) | ++/++
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne (2011) | +
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011) [Disc 1] | +
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic (2011) | Ө
Nod - I'm Around (1995) | ++/++
Polyps - Ants on the Golden Cone (2011) | +
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) || 8
Pterodactyl - Spills Out (2011) | ++
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992) | ++
Scrawl - Smallmouth (1990) | +/+
Shadow Ring - Wax-Work Echoes (1994) *ROTW* | +++
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol II: Judges (2011) ||| 9
Television - Marquee Moon (1977) ||| 10
TS - Make 'Em Say HNNNGGGG EP (2011) | ~
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) || 7.5+
Twin Sister - In Heaven (2011) | √
Wipers - Youth of America (1981) | +++
Wire - Chairs Missing (1978) ||| 9.5

October 17, 2011
Anika - Anika (2010) | +
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (1988) || 7.5≠ ("Fast Car")
Clash - London Calling (1979) ||| 10
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) ||| /\ 8.5
DJ Screw - Chapter 178: In the Zone (1996) | [++]
Emperor X - Western Teleport (2011) || 7.5
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack (1993) | +++/++
Harry Pussy - A: In an Emergency You Can Shit on a Puerto Rican Whore EP (1993) | +
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Back From the Brink comp. (1973-1979) [1] | +
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (2011) || /\ 8
Microphones - Mt. Eerie (2003) | ++/+
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011) [x2] | +++/+++
Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes (1996) || √
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) ||| 8.5
Nina Simone - Sings the Blues (1967) | ++
Snowman - Absence (2011) || 7.5+
Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles (1986) || 8+

October 10, 2011
Arrington De Dionyso - Suara Naga (2011) || 8
Black Milk - Album of the Year (2010) || 8+
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) | ++/++
Kate Bush - Never For Ever (1980) | +++
Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece (2002) *ROTW* | +++/++
Deus - In a Bar Under the Sea (1996) || 8.5
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack (1993) | +++
Future Islands - In Evening Air (2010) | ++
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King (2010) ||| 8
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) || \/ 8
Little Dragon - Ritual Union (2011) | +
Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension (1991) | +++/++
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens De Couleur Libres (2011) || 8
Marc Ribot - Requiem For What's-His-Name (1992) | +++/+++
Roots - Things Fall Apart (1999) | ++
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) || 9.5
Sebadoh - Bubble and Scrape (1993) | ++
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) ||| [10]
John Zorn - Naked City (1990) | ++

October 3, 2011
Africa HiTech - 93 Million Miles (2011) | [++]/++
Nat Baldwin - People Changes (2011) || 7.5
Bjork - Biophilia (2011) | [++]
Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece (2002) *ROTW* | +++
Circulatory System - Signal Morning (2009) || 8+
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs comp. (1992-1994) || 9
Durutti Column - LC (1981) || 8.5
Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks (1975) || 7.5≠ ("Tangled Up In Blue")
Folk Implosion - Lou Barlow 50/50 John Davis EP (1996) | ++
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (2000) || 7.5
Grouper - A I A (2011) || 8
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993) || 8.5-
Bridget Hayden - A Siren Blares In An Indifferent Ocean (2011) | +
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975) | +/++
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (2005) | ++
Pinkie Maclure - Favourite (1995) ||| 9
Micachu and the Shapes & London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) || 8
Dan Melchior - King of Sheep (2011) [x2] || 8
Men - Leave Home (2011) || /\ 8.5
Prince - Parade (1986) | +++/+++
Marc Ribot - Requiem For What's-His-Name (1992) | +++
Scrawl - Velvet Hammer (1993) ||| /\ 8.5
Scrawl - Travel On, Rider (1996) || [8]
Snowman - Absence (2011) [x2] | ++/[+]
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Cannot Erase (2011) || /\ 8.5
Thursday - No Devolucion (2011) | [+]

September 26, 2011
Africa HiTech - 93 Million Miles (2011) | [++]
American Analog Set - The Fun of Watching Fireworks (1996) ||| 8.5
Sam Amidon - I See the Sign (2010) [x2] || 7.5
Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man (2010) /\ 8
Circuit Des Yeux - Portrait (2011) || 7.5
Deus - In a Bar Under the Sea (1996) | +++/+++
Emperor X - Western Teleport (2011) [x3] || 7.5
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (1978) ||| 9.5
Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| 9.5
Dan Melchior - King of Sheep (2011) | +++
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam (1992) | [+]/+++
Music Tapes - Purim's Shadows EP (2011) || 7.5
Nostalgia 77 - The Sleep Walking Society (2011) | +/++
Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings (2011) | +
Talking Heads - 77 (1977) || 8
Twin Sister - In Heaven (2011) | +
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal || √

September 19, 2011
Sam Amidon - I See the Sign (2010) | ++
Arrested Development - Zingalamaduni (1994) [x2] | ++/[++]
Breeders - Last Splash (1993) || 8.5
Breeders - Mountain Battles (2008) || [í] ("Night of Joy")
Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases (2008) | +/+
Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011) || 7.5+
Caroliner - Rise of the Common Woodpile (1987) | ++
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Twinkle Echo (2003) || 8.5
Loren Mazzacane Connors - Long Nights (1995) | +++/++
Dalek - Absence (2005) | [++]/+++
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here (1991) || 8.5
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain (2000) | [++]
Deus - In a Bar Under the Sea (1996) | +++
Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993) | +++/++
Dinowalrus - % (2010) ||| 8.5
DJ Diamond - Flight Muzik (2011) || 8
DJ Rashad - Just a Taste (2011) || √+
Durutti Column - LC (1981) [x2] *ROTW*| +++/+++
Bob Dylan and the Band - The Basement Tapes (1975) | ++
Men - Leave Home (2011) || 8
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (2009) || 8.5-
Nod - I'm Around (1995) | ++
Rodan - Rusty (1994) | x
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Cannot Erase (2011) || 8+
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) ||| 9+
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite (1998) | ++
Tangerine Dream - Thief (1981) | +/[++]
Boubacar Traore - Mariana (1990) | +
Zs - New Slaves (2010) || /\ 8.5

September 12, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8
Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing (1971) | ++
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || 8.5
Beta Band - The Beta Band (1999) | ++
Danny Brown - XXX (2011) [x2] | ++/+
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (1987) | [+]/+++
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical (2011) | +
Loren Mazzacane Connors - Long Nights (1995) | +++
Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970) | ++
J Dilla - Donuts (2006) | ++/+++
Abner Jay - Swaunee Water and Cocaine Blues (1976) | ++
Laddio Bolocko - Strange Warmings Of.. (1997) || 8.5+
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003) | ++
Mokira - Album (2004) | +/++
Mum - Finally We Are No One (2002) | [+]/+
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man (1971) | ++/+++
Silkworm - Libertine (1994) | +
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993) ||| 10
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) ||| 8.5
Sublime Frequencies - Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound (2004) | +++
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty (1991) || 8
Wet Hair - In Vogue Spirit (2011) | ++

September 5, 2011
Caboladies - Renewable Destination (2011) | +
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (2011) || 7.5
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1969) | +++
Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact (2003) ||| 8.5
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) ||| 9-
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (2007) || 8-
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009) ||| 8.5
Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca EP (2010) || 8
DJ Diamond - Flight Muzik (2011) | ++/++
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl (2010) | ++
Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat (2011) | ++/++
Gas - Gas (1996) | +
Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973) | ++++
Haunted Houses - The Invisible War of the Mind (2010) || /\ 8.5
Hobo Cubes - Timesless-Mindless (2011) | +
Homosexuals - The Homosexuals CD comp. (1978-1984) | +++
Jenny Hval - Viscera (2011) | ++/+++
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) || 7.5+
Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990) || 8.5+
Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work (2011) [x2] | ++/+
Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes II (2011) | +
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (2011) || 7.5
Passion Pit - Manners (2009) | [~]
SBTRKT - SBTRKT (2011) [x2] | +/+
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || 8
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Cannot Erase (2011) || 8
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol II: Judges (2011) || /\ 9
Tune-Yards - Bird-Brains (2009) | ~/++
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) || 7.5
Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005) | ++
LIVE: Caboladies w/ Kate Wells @ Delilah's on Cayuga 8/24

August 29, 2011
Alias - Fever Dream (2011) | +
Black Zone Myth Chant - Straight Cassette (2011) || 7.5
David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding (2011) || 8
Caddywhompus - The Weight EP (2011) | ++/~
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) || 7.5
Deerhoof - Vs. Evil (2011) || \/ 7.5
Demdike Stare - Forest of Evil (2010) | +
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2011) || 8
DJ Diamond - Flight Muzik (2011) | ++
Feelies - Here Before (2011) | √
Giant Sand – Center of the Universe (1992) | ++/+++
Zach Hill - Face Tat (2010) || 8.5
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) || 7.5
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005) || 8
Dan Melchior – Assemblage Blues (2011) [x2] | +++/++
Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up (1999) | ++
Moldy Peaches - Moldy Peaches (2001) || 8
OOIOO - Feather Float (1999) || 9
Pigeons - They Sweetheartstammers (2011) [x2] | ++/[++]
Psychic Paramount - II (2011) | Ө
Siriusmo - Mosaik (2011) || 8
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Cannot Erase (2011) [x2] | ++/+++
Speculator - Nice (2011) | ++
Telebossa - Telebossa (2011) | √
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (2011) || 7.5
Twilight Singers - Twilight (2000) || 7.5+
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969) || 8.5
Velvet Underground - Loaded (1970) || 7.5
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (1995) ||| 8

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August 22, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8 [TMT]
Advisory Circle - As the Crow Flies (2011) | ++/++
Charalambides - Market Square (1995) | +
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (1969) || 9
Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993) | +++
Evens - Get Evens (2006) || 7.5
Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001) || 9
Fennesz - Venice (2004) || 7.5
Giant Sand - Center of the Universe (1992) | ++
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) || 8.5
Jenny Hval - Viscera (2011) | ++
Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991) | [+++]/+++
Ignatz - I Hate This City (2011) [x2] | +++/++
Laddio Bolocko - Strange Warmings Of... (1997) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic (2011) | ~
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011) || 7.5
Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living (1994) | [++]
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (2008) | ++/++
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) ||| 8.5
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (1987) | ++/+
Roxy Music - Country Life (1974) || 8
Sebastian - Total (2011) || 8
Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch (2011) | ~
Wedding Present - Seamonsters (1991) | +
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976) v. || 8
LIVE: Colin Stetson w/ Kate Wells @ Delilah's on Cayuga 8/24

August 15, 2011
Air - Air Lore (1979) | ++
Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets - World Garage (2011) | +
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (2011) | ++/++
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| 9
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969) | ++++/+++
Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat (2011) | ++
Fugees - The Score (1996) | +++/+++
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (2011) | +/++
Has-Lo - In Case I Don't Make It (2011) | ++
Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster (2003) [++]/+
Mu-Ziq - Lunatic Harness (1997) || 8
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Birds on the Water (2006) || 7.5-
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) ||| 8.5
Porn Sword Tobacco - Everything Is Music to the Ear (2009) [x2] | ++/++
Prince - Parade (1986) | +++
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (1987) [x2] | +++/++
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (1987) | ++
Strand of Oaks - Pope Killdragon (2010) || 7.5
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) v. [x2] || 8 [TMT]
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) || 8
Widowspeak - Widowspeak (2011) | [+]
Wild Beasts - Smother (2011) | ~

August 8, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8
Beck - One Foot in the Grave (1994) | ++
Blackalicious - The Craft (2005) | [+]
Bobs - My, I'm Large (1987) v. | +++
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) ||| [9.5]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2010) | ++/+
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 (2011) [x2] | ++/+
Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension (1991) | +++
Men - Leave Home (2011) [x2] | +++/+++
Mesita - Here's to Nowhere (2011) | +
Mu - Afro Finger and Gel (2003) | +++
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (1993) ||| 9
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (1995) | ++/++
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) | ++
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (2011) | ++/++
War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (2011) | +
Zazen Boys - II (2004) | ++
LIVE: Six Organs of Admittance @ Delilah's on Cayuga 8/11

August 1, 2011
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (2009) || 8
Bardo Pond - Dilate (2001) || 7.5
Circuit Des Yeux - Portrait (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (2006) ||| 8.5
Leonard Cohen - Songs (1967) ||| 9
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (2005) || 8
Enya - Paint the Sky With Stars comp. (1987-1997) || 7.5
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965) || 8+
Hype Williams - One Nation (2011) || 7.5
Ladies Auxiliary - My Side of the Mountain (2011) || 7.5 [TMT]
Love - Forever Changes (1967) ||| 9
Morcheeba - Big Calm (1998) | +
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (2010) | +/+
Nirvana - In Utero (1994) || 8
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) ||| /\ 8.5 [TMT]
Roots - Game Theory (2006) || 8+
Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves (2008) | ++/+++
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) ||| 8.5
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star (1973) ||| 9
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || 8
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends (1968) || 7.5
Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995) || 8.5
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997) || /\ 8
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (2010) || [7.5]
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991) || 9+

July 25, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) || 8
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) | ++/+++
Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 1991/1992 (2008) | ++
Bright Eyes - Lifted or Your Story Is In the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002) || 7.5
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969) *ROTW* | ++++
Glass Eye - Bent By Nature (1988) | ++↕
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975) | +
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (2011) || 8
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) || 9.5
Stars Like Fleas - Sun Lights Down on the Fence (2003) | ++/+
3Ds - The Venus Trail (1993) || √+
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (1990) | +
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (2004) ||| /\ 8.5
Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting (2011) | ~/++
LIVE: Bright Eyes @ Paper Mill Island 7/31

July 18, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) | +++/+++
Blackalicious - Nia (1999) || 8.5
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000) || /\ 7.5+
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) || [8-]
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) ||| 10
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light (2011) | Ө
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (1975) | ++/++
Ladies Auxiliary - My Side of the Mountain (2011) || 7.5-
The Left - Gas Mask (2010) | +++/+++
Cass McCombs - Wit's End (2011) | Ө
Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| /\ 9.5
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory (2005) || √
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) ||| 8
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) || 8+
Stars Like Fleas - Sun Lights Down on the Fence (2003) | ++
Amon Tobin - ISAM (2011) | +/[+]
Richard Youngs - Amplifying Host (2011) | +

July 11, 2011
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw (2011) | +++
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || 8.5
Bright Eyes - The People's Key (2011) | +/+
David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding (2011) || 8-
Grouper - A I A (2011) || 8+
James Pants - James Pants (2011) || 7.5
Kids on a Crime Spree - We Love You So Bad (2011) | ++/+
Mekons - The Edge of the World (1986) [x2] || 8
Mind Spiders - Mind Spiders (2011) | +
National - Alligator (2005) ||| 9.5
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul (2011) || 8.5
Rafter - Quiet Storm (2011) || 8
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens De Couleur Libres (2011) || 8
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol II: Judges (2011) || 8.5
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1993) || 8.5

July 4, 2011
Advisory Circle - As the Crow Flies (2011) | ++
Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons (2000) | ~
Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth (2011) | +
Nat Baldwin - People Changes (2011) || 7.5
Books - The Way Out (2010) || 7.5
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005) ||| 9
Frieder Butzmann - Wie Zeit Vergeht (2011) | ~
David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding (2011) [x3] || 8
Epstein - Sealess See (2011) || \/ 7.5
Fog - Ether Teeth (2003) || 8
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (2011) | +
Grooms - Rejoicer (2009) [x3] || 7.5
Grooms - Prom (2011) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise | +/+
Abner Jay - The Backbone of America Is a Mule and Cotton (1976) | +
Sean McCann - The Capital || 8
Matmos - A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure (2001) | ++
Mekons - The Edge of the World (1986) | [+++]
Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (2011) | ++/++
Mouthus - Saw A Halo (2007) | ~
Music Tapes - Purim's Shadows EP (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) || 8
Tinariwen - Amassakoul (2004) | ++
Tragically Hip - Day For Night (1994) | +
Who - Who's Next (1971) ||| \/ 8
Wire - Red Barked Tree (2011) | +/+
Yo La Tengo - Painful (1993) ||| 9.5
Yuck - Yuck (2011) ||| \/ 7.5

June 27, 2011
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (1982) v. || 9.5
Arrington De Dionyso - Suara Naga (2011) || 8-
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011) | √
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (2011) | ++
DJ Rashad - Just a Taste (2011) | √
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light (2011) | ~
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (1975) | ++
Forma - Forma (2011) | +
Gastr Del Sol - Crookt, Crackt, or Fly (1994) | ++
James Pants - James Pants (2011) | ++
Abner Jay - Last Ole Minstrel Man (2011) || 8
Julian Lynch - Terra (2011) || 7.5
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011) | ++/++
Josh T. Pearson - The Last of the Country Gentlemen (2011) | ++/~
Hank Roberts - Green (2008) || 7.5
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) [x2] ROTW | +++/++
16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'N' Ashes (1996) | ~
Telebossa - Telebossa (2011) | ~
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (2011) | ++
Scott Tuma - The River 1 2 3 4 (2003) || 7.5
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) || 8
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997) ||| 10

June 20, 2011
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) | ++
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums (2004) | ++
Arrested Development - 3 Years 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of (1992) || /\ 8.5
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011) | ~
Cap'n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, etc. (1994) || 8+
Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011) [x2] | +/++
Ned Collette - Future Suture (2007) || 7.5
Cruise Family - Up To Us (2011) || 7.5
Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection (2011) || √
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (2011) || 7.5
Peter Gabriel - So (1986) | ~
Guided By Voices - Propellor (1992) || 7.5
Guided By Voices - Vampire on Titus (1993) || 8-
Ladies Auxiliary - My Side of the Mountain (2011) || 7.5
Pinback - Pinback (1999) || 7.5
Pinback - Summer in Abbadon (2004) || 7.5
Chris Rehm - Worries, Etc. (2011) || 7.5+
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (2011) || 8
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) || 8.5+
Sebastian - Total (2011) [x3] || 8
Scrawl - Smallmouth (1990) | +
Silver Jews - Starlite Walker (1994) || 7.5
Sweet Honey in the Rock - The Women Gather (2003) | ++

June 13, 2011
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) ||| 8
Animal Collective - Feels (2005) ||| 8.5-
Nat Baldwin - People Changes (2011) | ++/+
David Bazan - Strange Negotiations (2011) | +
Brainiac - Electro-Shock For President EP (1997) | +++
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From the Man (1996) | +
Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy? (1995) || [7.5]
Ga'an - Ga'an (2009) || 7.5+
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade and Afterlife (1996) || 8.5
Grooms - Prom (2011) || 7.5
Hood - Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys (1998) | ++
Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990) | +++/++++
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011) | ++
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens De Couleur Libres (2011) [x2] | +++/+++
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996) || 9
Self - Breakfast With Girls (1999) [x2] | ++/+
Sun City Girls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno (1996) | ++
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1993) || 8.5
Windy and Carl - Drawing of Sound (1996) | ++/++
LIVE: Nat Baldwin @ Castaways 6/20

June 6, 2011
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) || 8 [TMT]
Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album (1996) || 8.5
Erykah Badu - Baduizm (1997) | ++
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) || 8+
Blackalicious - Nia (1999) [x2] *ROTW* | ++++/+++
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand (1986) | +
Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP (2003) ||| 9.5
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999) | ++/++
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979) v. | [+]/++
Frogs - My Daughter the Broad (1996) | ++
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife (1996) || 8.5
Grooms - Prom (2011) [x2] | ++/+
Jessamine - Jessamine (1995) [x2] | ++/++
Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990) | +++
Kids on a Crime Spree - We Love You So Bad (2011) | ++
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) || 8.5
Windy and Carl - Drawing of Sound (1996) | ++

May 30, 2011
Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996) | [++]/+
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) || 8
Antlers - Burst Apart (2011) || 7.5+
Nat Baldwin - People Changes (2011) | ++
Books - The Lemon of Pink (2003) ||| 9
Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen (1980) | [++]/+
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of... (1998) | +
Iran - The Moon Boys (2002) || 8.5
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001) || 8
Portastatic - I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle (1994) || 8
Pram - Gash EP (1992) || /\ 8.5+
Radiohead - Kid A (2000) ||| 9.5
Renderers - A Dream of the Sea (1998) | [++]
Sun City Girls - 330,003 Cross Dressers From Beyond the Rig Veda (1996) | +++/+++
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1993) | [+]/+++
Neil Young - Harvest (1972) ||| 9
Young Gods - TV Sky (1992) | x

May 23, 2011
Robbie Basho - The Seal of the Blue Lotus (1965) | [+]/++
Beck - Guero (2005) ||| 7.5
Boris - New Album (2011) | +
Cruise Family - Up To Us (2011) | ++/++
Cursive - The Ugly Organ (2003) ||| 8
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) || 8
F in Math - Couch EP (2011) | ++
Fugees - The Score (1996) *ROTW* | +++
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006) || 7.5
The Left - Gas Mask (2010) | +++
Micachu and the Shapes & London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) [x2] || 8
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts (2011) | [+]
Replacements - Let It Be (1984) ||| 8.5
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2010) || 8
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990) ||| 9
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) || 7.5
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (2004) || 7.5
LIVE: Ga'an @ CSMA 5/26

May 16, 2011
Antlers - Burst Apart (2011) | ++/+
Apache Dropout - Apache Dropout (2011) | ++/+
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) || 8.5
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (2010) | +
Caddywhompus - The Weight EP (2011) | ++
Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011) | [+]
Cruise Family - Up To Us (2011) | ++
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Deer Tick - War Elephant (2007) ||| 8.5
Deerhoof - Reveille (2002) | +++
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) || 8.5
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975) ||| 10
Grails - Future Politics (2011) | +
Illogic - Celestial Clockwork (2004) || 8.5
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire (2001) || 8.5
Micachu and the Shapes & London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) || 8
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) || 8
Royal Bangs - Flux Outside (2011) || √ [TMT]
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (1990) | [++]/+++
This Kind of Punishment - A Beard of Bees (1984) | +/++
Tyler the Creator - Goblin (2011) | ++
U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Column (2002) || 8.5

May 9, 2011
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) | [+++]/+++
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) | ++/++
James Blake - James Blake (2011) ||| /\ 9
Califone - Roomsound (2001) ||| 8.5
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) || 8
Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen (1980) | [++]
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife (1996) | ++/++
Grouper - A I A (2011) || 8
Hotel Alexis - Goliath I'm On Your Side (2007) || \/ 8
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (2009) ||| 8.5
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) || 8+
Micachu and the Shapes & London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) | +++/+++
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (2009) || 8.5
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (2001) || 8.5
Rafter - Sex Death Cassette (2007) | ++
Space Needle - Voyager (1995) ||| 8.5
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) || 8

May 2, 2011
Amon Duul II - Vive La Trance (1974) v. | +
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992) || 7.5
Antlers - Burst Apart (2011) | ++
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008) | [+++]
Battles - Mirrored (2007) ||| \/ 7.5
Battles - Gloss Drop (2011) | +
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (1993) | ++
Bjork - Vespertine (2001) || 8.5
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year (1994) | ++
Books - Thought For Food (2002) ||| 9
Caribou - Andorra (2007) ||| \/ 8
Elephant Micah - And the Loud Guitars (2004) ||| 8.5
Ga'an - Ga'an (2009) | +/++
Ladies Auxiliary - My Side of the Mountain (2011) | +/++
Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery (2009) || /\ 8.5
Micachu and the Shapes w/ London Sinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed (2011) *ROTW* | +++
Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From a Jail (1999) | +
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul (2011) || 8+
Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks (2011) | +
Royal Bangs - Let It Beep (2009) | ~
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002) ||| 8.5
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol II: Judges (2011) || 8.5
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool (2006) ||| 8.5
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) || 8

April 25, 2011
Arrested Development - 3 Years 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of (1992) || 8
Bee Mask - Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico (2010) | +
Belong - Common Era (2011) | ++/+
Congos - Heart Of The... (1977) || 7.5
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1964) || 8.5
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) || 8
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) || 8.5
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) || 8.5
Ga'an - Ga'an (2009) | +
Lungfish - The Unanimous Hour (1999) | ++
Julian Lynch - Terra (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Cass McCombs - Wit's End (2011) | ~
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies (1983) v. || 7.5
Dylan Nyoukis - The Shield That Pierces the Earth (2000) | +
Peaking Lights - 936 (2011) || 7.5+
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) || 8
Pram - North Pole Radio Station (1998) | ++/+++
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition (1979) | ++/++
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (2011) | ++/++
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) || \/ 8
Royal Bangs - Flux Outside (2011) || √
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986) || 8+
Stereolab - Peng (1992) v. || 8.5+
Stereolab - Transient Random-Boise Bursts With Announcements (1993) ||| 9.5
Amon Tobin - Isam (2011) | +
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) || 7.5
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) || 8
Ween - White Pepper (2000) || 7.5-
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents (1977) | ++
Yo La Tengo - Painful (1993) ||| 9.5
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997) ||| 10

April 18, 2011
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (2009) | ++/+
Belong - Common Era (2011) | ++
Bird Names - Metabolism (2011) | ~
Braids - Native Speaker (2011) | ~
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970) || 8+
Brian Eno - Drums Between the Bells (2011) | +
Gary War - Horribles Parade (2009) | [+]
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (2011) | √
Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit (2000) | +/+
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002) | +
Old Time Relijun - Catharsis In Crisis (2007) | ++
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) || 8.5
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (2011) | ++
Roommate - Guilty Rainbow (2011) [x4] *ROTW* || 8.5-
Jane Siberry - No Borders Here (1984) v. || 7.5
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me comp. (1959-1962) v. | ++/++
Siriusmo - Mosaik (2011) || 8
Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star (2001) | +
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) | ++/+
United Waters - Your First Ever River (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island (2011) | +
Wires Under Tension - Light Science (2011) || Ө [TMT]

April 11, 2011
Arrington de Dionyso - Suara Naga (2011) || 8
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) ||| 10
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965) | +/+++
Grouper - A I A (2011) [x3] || 8
Hype Williams - One Nation (2011) || 7.5
Mineral - EndSerenading (1998) | +/++
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) ||| 8
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968) ||| 10
Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit (2000) | +
Nostalgia 77 - The Sleep Walking Society (2011) | +
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (2003) ||| 8.5
Tune-Yards - Whokill (2011) | ++
Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting (2011) | ~

April 4, 2011
Apache Dropout - Apache Dropout (2011) | ++
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) || 8
Arrington de Dionyso - Suara Naga (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976) | +
Abner Jay - Last Ole Minstrel Man (2011) | +++/++
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Secret Thinking (2011) || Ө≠ ("You Know You Want It...") [TMT]
Little Wings - Black Grass (2011) || 7.5
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (2010) | +
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) [x2] || /\ 8.5
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (2004) [x3] || 8
Roommate - We Were Enchanted (2008) || 8
Tape-Beatles - Music With Sound (1990) | ++
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) || 8 [TMT]
LIVE: Roommate @ The Shop 4/8

March 28, 2011
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) | +++/++
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar (1994) || 9
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) [x2] || 8.5
Emperor X - Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes (And the Dreams That Resulted) (2005) ||| 8.5
Glassjaw - Coloring Book EP (2011) | x
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music From Niger) (2007) | ++
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) || /\ 8.5
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis (1998) | +/+
Hype Williams - One Nation (2011) | ++/[+]
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Secret Thinking (2011) || Ө
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996) || 9
Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (2011) | ++
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol II: Judges (2011) [x4] *ROTW* || 8.5
Ween - Pure Guava (1992) ||| 9
Yuck - Yuck (2011) ||| 8-
LIVE: Mountain Goats @ Castaways [Dan Smalls Presents] 4/3

March 21, 2011
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (2011) | +++
James Blake - James Blake (2011) || 8.5+
Cap'n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, etc. (1994) | ++/++
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) || 8
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011) *ROTW* | +++
Green Gerry - Odd Tymes (2010) | √
Hype Williams - One Nation (2011) | ++
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) || 8.5-
Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (2011) | x
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak (1999) || 8
Little Wings - Black Grass (2011) | ++/++
Sean McCann - The Capital (2011) | +++/++
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography (1976) || 9
Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (2011) | ++
My Computer - Vulnerabilia (2002) || Ө≠ ("All I Ever...")
Pop Winds - The Turquoise (2010) | ~
Chris Rehm - Worries, Etc. (2011) | ++/++
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2011) | +
U.S. Maple - Long Hair in Three Stages (1995) [x2] | +/+
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) || 8+

March 14, 2011
Black Milk - Album of the Year (2010) || 8
Budos Band - III (2010) | ++
Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel (2011) [x2] || √ [TMT]
Curren$y - Pilot Talk (2010) | +
Deerhoof - Vs. Evil (2011) || 8
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind (1991) [x2] || 7.5
Johnny Dowd - Cemetery Shoes (2004) | [+]
East River Pipe - We Live in Rented Rooms (2011) | ~
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike (2004) || 7.5
Abner Jay - Last Ole Minstrel Man (2011) *ROTW* | +++
Kellarissa - Moon of Neptune (2011) | x
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak (1999) | ++/++
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Secret Thinking (2011) | ~/~
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (2011) | +
Peaking Lights - 936 (2011) || [7.5]
Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All the Time (2011) | [~]
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011) [x2] || 7.5+
Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000) | √
Tape - Revelationes (2011) | +
Rafael Toral - Space Elements Vol. III (2011) | [~]
Chris Weisman - Transparency (2010) | +
LIVE: Moldover @ Waffle Frolic [Ithaca Underground] 3/20

March 7, 2011
Daedelus - Bespoke (2011) | +
DJ Rashad - Just A Taste (2011) | ~
Epstein - Sealess See (2011) [x4] || 8-
Faust - Something Dirty (2011) | +
Zach Hill - Face Tat (2010) || 8.5
Ladies Auxiliary - My Side of the Mountain (2011) | +
John Lennon - Imagine (1971) ||| 9
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown (2010) | +/[+]
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) || 8
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me Oh My Soul (2011) [x2] || 8
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man (1971) | ++
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks (1977) || 7.5
Siriusmo - Mosaik (2011) [x3] || 8
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep On the Floodplain (2011) || 7.5
Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) ||| 8.5
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) || 8
LIVE: J Mascis @ Castaways [Dan Smalls Presents] 3/10

February 28, 2011
Bibio - Mind Bokeh (2011) | ~
Black Zone Myth Chant - Straight Cassette (2011) [x2] | ++/+
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar (1994) || /\ 9
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) [x2] || 8.5
Cap'n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, etc. (1994) | ++
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) || 8
Feelies - Here Before (2011) | +
Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007 (2005) | ++/++
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak (1999) | ++
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Secret Thinking (2011) | ~
Little Wings - Black Grass (2011) | ++
Loftus - Loftus (2000) || 7.5
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (2011) | ~
Sean McCann - The Capital (2011) *ROTW* | +++
Peaking Lights - 936 (2011) [x2] | +/+
Purling Hiss - Hissteria (2010) | +
Rafter - Quiet Storm (2011) || 8
Royal Bangs - Flux Outside (2011) | [~]/+
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) || 9.5+
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007) | [~]/+
Wires Under Tension - Light Science (2011) || Ө+
Zomes - Earth Grid (2011) [x2] | ++/++

February 21, 2011
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (2009) || 8
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (2011) | +
Beets - Stay Home (2011) | ++/++
Bright Eyes - The People's Key (2011) | +
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005) ||| 9
Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume (2011) [x2] || √ [TMT]
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) || 8
Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection (2011) [x2] | +/++
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) || 8
John Fahey and Cul-de-Sac - The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (1997) | +
FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain (2011) | ~
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira (1988) || 8.5
Gerbils - Are You Sleepy? (1998) | ++
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011) [x2] | +/++
Zach Hill - Face Tat (2010) [x2] || 8.5
Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (2011) | +
Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist (2010) | ++/++
Psychedelic Horseshit - Laced (2011) | ~
Psychic Paramount - II (2011) | x
Rafter - Quiet Storm (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Royal Bangs - Flux Outside (2011) | [~]
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep On the Floodplain (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (2010) || 7.5
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Lovelyville (1991) | +
Wires Under Tension - Light Science (2011) | ~/[~]
Wye Oak - Civilian (2011) | +

February 14, 2011
Actress - Splazsh (2010) | +
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (2009) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Amen Dunes - Dia (2009) ||| 9
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes (2008) || 7.5
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar (1994) || 8.5
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) | ++
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) | +++/++
Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel (2011) [x2] | √
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987) ||| 9
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess (1968) | +
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) || 8
Zach Hill - Face Tat (2010) | +++
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me Oh My Soul (2011) | +
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) | ++/++
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011) [x2] | +/+
Chris Rehm - Worries, etc (2011) | ++
Shpongle - The God Particle EP (2011) | ~
Talking Heads - 77 (1977) | ++/++
Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980) || /\ 9
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (2011) || 7.5 [TMT]
Sublime Frequencies - Radio Morocco (2004) | +++

February 7, 2011
Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume (2011) [x2] | √
Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (2011) *ROTW* | +++
Deerhoof - Vs. Evil (2011) [x2] || 8
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) ||| 8.5
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) || 8.5
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (2010) | +
Led Zeppelin - III (1970) | ++/+
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (2011) || √ [TMT]
Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine (1994) | +/+
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) | ++/++
Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley || 7.5
Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005) ||| [9]
Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (2006) | [+]
U.S. Girls - Go Grey (2010) || √
Waggers Over the Station - Upekkha (2010) || 8
Wendy and Bonnie - Genesis (1969) | +/+
Wires Under Tension - Light Science (2011) | ~
Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2010) | √
LIVE: Gull with Porches and Rival Tribes @ Waffle Frolic [Ithaca Underground] 2/11

January 31, 2011
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) | [++]/+++
Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo (2010) | ~
James Blake - James Blake (2011) || 8.5
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (1988) || 7.5+
Ned Collette - Jokes & Trials (2006) ||| 8.5-
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) [x2] || 8
Natural Snow Buildings - Waves of the Random Sea (2011) | +
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice comp. (1971-1985) | ++/++
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (2011) || 7.5+

January 24, 2011
Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (2008) || 8-
Belly - Star (1993) | ↕+/[+]
Black Keys - Rubber Factory (2004) || 8
Broadcast - Pendulum EP (2003) | [+]
Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man (2010) || 7.5+
Chumbawamba - Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/++
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2011) || 8
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (2011) [x2] | ++/++
Green - White Soul (1990) | √
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (1995) ||| 9
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (2011) | ++
Knife - Silent Shout (2006) || 8
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (2011) | [+]/~
Sarah MacLachlan - Surfacing (1997) || √
Mokira - Album (2004) | +
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me (2007) | +
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992) || 8.5-
Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way (1964) | ~
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (1969) | +
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (2008) || 7.5
Sebadoh - Bakesale (1994) || [8]
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (2011) | √
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971) v. | ++/++
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) || 9
Twilight Singers - Twilight (2000) | ~/[++]
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (2011) [x2] || 7.5
Wire - Red Barked Tree (2011) | +
Yuck - Yuck (2011) [x2] || /\ 8 TMT]

January 17, 2011
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Scared Famous (2002) || 7.5
Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1971) | +
Belly - Star (1993) | ↕+
Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (2010) | [~]
James Blake - James Blake (2011) || 8.5
Black Milk - Album of the Year (2010) [x2] | ++/++
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) || 9
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) || /\ 8
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2011) || 8
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999) | ++
Eluvium - Similes (2010) || 7.5
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) || 8.5
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God (2010) ||| 8
Knife - Silent Shout (2006) || /\ 8
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (2010) || √
Phantom Band - The Wants (2010) | ~
Satanstompingcaterpillars - The Most Wonderfulest Thing (2002) || 7.5
Sin Ropas - Fire Prizes (2005) || 8
Supersilent - 10 (2010) | +
Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - 28 (2005) || 7.5
These New Puritans - Hidden (2010) | [~]/+
12 Rods - Gay? (1996) || 8+
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (2011) | ++
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett (2005) || 8
Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (1973) | ++
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (2009) || 8
Yuck - Yuck (2011) [x2] || 7.5
Zs - New Slaves (2010) || [8]

January 10, 2011
Broadcast - The Book Lovers EP(1997) || 7.5
Broadcast - Extended Play EP (2000) | [+]/[+]
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People (2000) ||| 8.5
Broadcast - Extended Play 2 EP (2000) | +
Burial - Untrue (2007) || /\ 8+
Cloud Nothings - Turning On comp. (2009-2010) [x2] | +/+
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (2011) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
Deerhoof - vs. Evil (2011) [x4] || 8
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (1988) || \/ 8
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2011) [x2] || ++/++
Elbow - Cast of Thousands (2003) | [~]/[++]
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (2006) ||| 8
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) [x2] || 8.5
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989) ||| 9
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (2009) ||| 8.5
Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004) || /\ 8+
Magnetic Fields - Realism (2010) | √
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (2011) | [+]
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (2009) || 8.5
Owen Pallett - Heartland (2010) || √
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988) ||| 8.5
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (2009) | ++
Residents - Not Available (1978) | ++
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993) || 8
Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995) | +/++
Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - 28 (2005) | [+]/++
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) ||| 8.5
Amon Tobin - Supermodified (2000) || 8
U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Column (2003) [x4] *ROTW* || 8.5
Velvet Underground - Loaded (1970) || /\ 8.5
Viktor Vaughan - Vaudeville Villain (2003) | +
The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008) ||| 8.5
Weezer - Weezer [The Blue Album] (1994) || 8
Weezer - Pinkerton (1996) | [+]/++
Women - Women (2008) || [7.5]
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967) | +

January 3, 2011
Sibylle Baier - Colour Green (2006) | +
Beets - Stay Home (2011) | ++
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970) || [8.5]
Clouddead - Clouddead (2001) || 8.5
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (2011) [x3] || 7.5
Eddy Detroit - Immortal Gods (1982) | +
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (2007) ||| 8.5
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969) v. | ~
Electrelane - The Power Out (2004) || 7.5
Eluvium - Similes (2010) | ~/++
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths (2010) *ROTW* | +++
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965) | +
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) || /\ 8.5
How to Dress Well - Love Remains (2010) | ~
J Dilla - Donuts (2006) | ++
Bert Jansch - Jack Orion (1966) | +
Massive Attack - Heligoland (2010) || √
Mu-Ziq - Lunatic Harness (1997) | +/++
Mu-Ziq - Royal Astronomy (1999) | +
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms (1970) | +
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (2007) | ++
Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994) [x2] | ++/++
Seefeel - Quique (1993) || 8
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (2011) | +
Nina Simone - Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit comp. (1967-1969) | +++
Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In (2010) [x2] | ↕/+
Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves (2008) | ++
Tipper - Broken Soul Jamboree (2010) | +/+
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (2002) | [++]
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This (2010) | ~/~
Yuck - Yuck (2011) [x2] | +/+

December 27, 2010
Leona Anderson - Music to Suffer By (1958) || 7.5
James Blake - James Blake (2011) [x5] *ROTW* || 8.5
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970) | +/++
Leonard Cohen - Songs (1967) || 9
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) || 7.5
Gareth Dickson - Collected Recordings comp. (2005-2009) | +/++
Elephant Micah - And The Loud Guitars (2004) || 8.5
Great Lakes Swimmers - Ongiara (2007) || 7.5
Green Gerry - Odd Tymes (2010) | +
Islaja - Ulual Yyy (2007) ||| 9-
Matmos - Supreme Balloon (2008) | +/++
Matmos - The Civil War (2003) || 8-
Loreena McKennitt - Book of Secrets (1997) | +/+
Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector (2004) | ~
National - High Violet (2010) || 7.5
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (2010) || 7.5
Waggers Over the Station - Upekkha (2010) | ++/+

December 20, 2010
James Blake - CMYK EP (2010) | +
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002) || 8.5
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) [x2] | +/+
Legendary Pink Dots - Seconds Late for the Brighton Lane (2010) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement || 8
John Martyn - Solid Air (1973) || 8
Massive Attack - Heligoland (2010) | ~/~
MGMT - Congratulations (2010) | ~
Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982) | +
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (2008) ||| 8.5
New Pornographers - Challengers (2010) | +
Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy (2011) | +
Waggers Over the Station - Upekkha (2010) | ++
Wild Nothing - Gemini (2010) | ~

December 13, 2010
Can - Monster Movie (1969) || 9
Can - Ege Bamyasi (1972) [x2] || 9.5
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009) ||| 8.5
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) || Ө
Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart (2010) || 8
Scrawl - Velvet Hammer (1993) || 8
Sonic Youth - Evol (1986) || 8.5
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (2010) [x2] || 7.5+
Tonetta - 777 (2010) || 7.5
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett (2005) [x2] || 8
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (2002) || 8.5

December 6, 2010
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) | ++/+
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) || 8
Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet (1983) | ++/+
Radiohead - Pablo Honey (1993) || 7.5
Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001) || 8.5
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) [x2] || 9.5
Christine Sehnaoui & Sven-Ake Johansson - La Vase/ Slikke (2010) | ~
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire (1989) | [++]
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of (1966) || [8-]
This Heat - Deceit (1981) ||| 9

November 30, 2010
Adam Ant - Friend or Foe (1982) v. | +/+
Beach House - Teen Dream (2010) || 7.5
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) | ++
Broken Water - Whet (2010) ||| 8.5
Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Reve (2004) | +/+
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws (2010) || 8
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (1978) v. ||| 9.5
Sean McCann - Open Resolve (2010) || 7.5+
Scout Niblett - The Calcination Of... (2010) || 8
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (1977) v. ||| 9.5
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) || 8.5
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) || 8
Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet (1983) | ++
Raincoats - Odyshape (1981) || 8
Silver Jews - Starlite Walker (1994) || 7.5
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (1987) v. | ~/++

November 22, 2010
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) ||| 10
Half Japanese - The Band That Would Be King (1989) v. | +++/+++
Haunted Houses - The Invisible War of the Mind (2010) [x2] *ROTW* || 8
Pinkie Maclure - Favourite (1995) ||| [9]
Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun (1985) || 8.5
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008) | [~]/~
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) ||| 9
This Heat - This Heat (1979) || 8.5

November 15, 2010
A Faulty Chromosome - As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit (2008) || 7.5
Laurie Anderson - Homeland (2010) || 8
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) ||| 8.5
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) [x2] || 8.5
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (2003) || 8
Dragging An Ox Through Water - Tropics of Phenomenon (2008) || 8
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws (2010) || 8
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (2005) ||| 9
Legendary Pink Dots - Seconds Late for the Brighton Lane (2010) | +
Pixies - Doolittle (1989) ||| [10]
Sebadoh - Bakesale (1994) || 8
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971) v. | ++
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (2010) || 8
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (2010) | +
Tipper - Broken Soul Jamboree (2010) | +
War on Drugs - Future Weather EP (2010) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) | +/[+]

November 8, 2010
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian (2003) | [~]/[+]
Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003) ||| 7.5+
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) || 9.5
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs comp. (1992-1994) [x2] | ++/++
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (2010) || 7.5
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern (2010) | ~
Replacements - Tim (1985) ||| 9
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) || 9.5
Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002) ||| 8.5
Sunset - Loveshines But the Moon Is Shining Too (2010) | [+]
War on Drugs - Future Weather EP (2010) || 7.5
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) | +
Yo La Tengo - Fakebook (1990) || [7.5]

November 1, 2010
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984) [x2] || 8.5
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010) | +
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws (2010) [x3] *ROTW* || 8
Fire Show - Saint The... (2002) || 8.5
Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist (2010) | ++
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990) || 8
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) || 8
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) || 9.5
Strand of Oaks - Pope Killdragon (2010) | +/+
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (2010) [x2] || 8
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (2010) || 8
War on Drugs - Future Weather EP (2010) | +/+
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) ||| 10

October 25, 2010
Fugazi - The Argument (2001) || [8.5]
Gastr del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife (1996) | ++
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) || 8
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (1994) || [8.5]
Half Japanese - The Band That Would Be King (1989) v. | +++
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya (1981) || 8.5
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990) | +++/++
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) [x2] ||| 8.5
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) | +++/++++
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (2003) ||| 8.5
Silver Jews - Starlite Walker (1994) | ++/+
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (2010) [x2] *ROTW* | +++/+++
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988) || 9.5
War on Drugs - Future Weather EP (2010) | +
Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric (1978) | ++/++
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (2002) | ++++/+++

October 18, 2010
Bjork - Vespertine (2001) || 8.5
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005) ||| 9
Caribou - Up In Flames (2003) ||| 9.5
Cloud Cult - Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus (2005) | [~]
Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact (2003) || 8.5
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) ||| 9
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God (2010) [x2] || 8
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) || [8.5]
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000) ||| 9.5
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba (1988) | ++
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) || 8.5
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) ||| 9.5
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986) *ROTW* | +++
Six Organs of Admittance - For Octavio Paz (2003) | +
Zs - New Slaves (2010) || 8.5

October 11, 2010
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In the Hands (2004) | [~]/+
Books - The Way Out (2010) | +/+
Alessandro Bosetti - Zwolfzungen (2010) | ++/+
The Coup - Steal This Album (1998) | ++/++
Dragging An Ox Through Water - Tropics of Phenomenon (2008) [x2] | ++/++
Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway (1997) ||| 8.5
Haunted Houses - The Invisible War of the Mind (2010) | +/++
John Martyn - Solid Air (1973) || 8.5
Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself (2010) | +
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown (2010) | +
Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes (2008) || 8.5
Liz Phair - Funstyle (2010) || 7.5
Pterodactyl Plains - Raven (2010) || 7.5
Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995) ||| 8.5
Tricky - Mixed Race (2010) | ~
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (2010) | ~
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (2010) [x2] || 8
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (2009) | √
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969) v. ||| 9.5

October 4, 2010
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003) [~]/↕
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP (2007) || 7.5
Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008) | √
Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 comp. (2003-2006) || Ө [TMT]
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O (2002) | ++
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face Of My God (2010) || 7.5+
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) || 8.5
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010) || 8
Paleo - A View of the Sky (2010) || 7.5 [TMT]
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) || 8
Benoit Pioulard - Precis (2006) || 7.5
Portishead - Third (2008) ||| 9.5
Rocketship - A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness (1996) | +/+
Sonic Youth - Evol (1986) || 8.5
Smithereens - Especially For You (1986) v. | +/++
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (2010) | ++
Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth (2002) ||| 8.5
Zs - New Slaves (2010) [x3] || 8.5

September 27, 2010
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk (1996) || 8
Alessandro Bosetti - Zwolfzungen (2010) | ++
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [x3] || 7.5
The Coup - Steal This Album (1998) | ++
Danny Paul Grody - Fountain (2010) | +/+
Dirty Three - Horse Stories (1996) | +
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) [x2] || 8.5
O Paon - Courses (2010) || 8 [TMT]
Paleo - A View of the Sky [x3] (2010) || 7.5
Liz Phair - Funstyle (2010) [x2] | ↕+/++
Pink Floyd - Animals (1977) ||| 8.5
Pterodactyl Plains - Raven (2010) [x2] | ++/++
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) || 8
Sebadoh - Harmacy (1996) | [+]/+++
Paul Simon - Paul Simon (1972) v. || 7.5
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal (2010) | ++/+
White Denim - Last Day of Summer (2010) | ~
Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric (1978) | ++
Neil Young - Le Noise (2010) | ++/+

September 20, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) ||| 8.5
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On (1997) ||| 9
Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart (2001) | +/+
Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca EP (2010) | ++/++
Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl (1994) || 9
Glasser - Ring (2010) || Ө [TMT]
Heads - No Talking Just Head (1996) | +
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (2010) | +++
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5 (2000) | [++]/[+]
Mission of Burma - Vs (1982) | √
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me comp. (1959-1962) | ++
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring (2009) | +
O Paon - Courses (2010) || 8
Paleo - A View of the Sky (2010) | ++
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007) || 7.5
Sebadoh - Bakesale (1994) [x2] || 8
Sleigh Bells - Treats (2010) || Ө≠ ("Rill Rill," "Treats")
Strand of Oaks - Pope Killdragon (2010) | +
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty (1991) || 8
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky [x2] (2010) | +/+
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) [x2] ||| 8.5
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) || 8
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) || 8.5
Yellow Swans - Going Places (2010) | ++
Neil Young - Le Noise (2010) | ++

September 13, 2010
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (2010) [x2] || 8
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going To See the King (2010) ||| 8
Koop - Waltz For Koop (2002) ||| 8.5
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (2010) [x2] | √
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010) [x2] || 8
Magnetic Fields - Realism (2010) | +
Malachai - Ugly Side of Love (2010) || 8
Memoryhouse - The Years EP (2010) || 7.5
O Paon - Courses (2010) [x2] | ++/++
Sleigh Bells - Treats (2010) [x2] | +/+
Supersilent - 6 (2003) || 9.5
Tocotronic - Schall Und Wahn (2010) | ~/-
Tonetta - 777 (2010) | ++/++
Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003) ||| 8.5
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal (2010) | ++

September 6, 2010
Algebra Suicide - The Secret Like Crazy comp. (1982-1987) || 8
Laurie Anderson - Homeland (2010) || 8
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966) ||| 9
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996) ||| 9
Captain Ahab - The End of Irony (2010) | ↕+
Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man (2010) [x3] || 7.5
Daft Punk - Discovery (2001) || 7.5
Dinowalrus - % (2010) [x2] ||| 8.5
Field Mice - For Keeps (1991) || 7.5
Glasser - Ring (2010) [x3] || Ө
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) [x2] || 8
Moles - Untune the Sky (1991) [x2] || 8
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues (1995) || 7.5+
Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card (2010) [x2] | ++/++
Scrawl - Velvet Hammer (1993) || 8
Tonetta - 777 (2010) | ++
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003) [x2] || 7.5

August 30, 2010
Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy? (1995) || 7.5
Clinic - Winchester Cathedral (2004) || 7.5
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (2008)) | [+]/+
Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 comp. (2003-2006) || Ө
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) ||| 8.5
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) [x2] || 8.5
Faust - The Faust Tapes (1973) || 8.5
Giant Claw - Erasers Fantasy (2010) | ~
Guided By Voices - Propellor (1992) || 7.5
Guided By Voices - Vampire On Titus (1993) || 8+
Half Japanese - Charmed Life (1988) || 9
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going To See the King (2010) ||| 8 [TMT]
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970) v. ||| 9
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010) | ++/++
Moles - Untune the Sky (1991) [x2] | ++/+
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues (1995) | [++]/+
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) || 8.5
Pumice - Pebbles (2007) || 8.5
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (2010) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
Six Organs of Admittance - Dust and Chimes (2000) || 7.5
Space Needle - Recordings 1994-1997 comp. (1994-1997) || 7.5
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010) || 7.5
Vaselines - The Way of the Vaselines comp. (1986-1989) [x2] || 7.5
Wendy and Bonnie - Genesis (1969) | +
Women - Public Strain (2010) || 8

August 23, 2010
American Analog Set - Know By Heart (2001) [x2] || 7.5
Laurie Anderson - Homeland (2010) [x2] | ++/++
Antlers - Hospice (2009) ||| 9
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) ||| 9.5
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010) [x2] || +/++/8
Can - Monster Movie (1969) || 9
Can - Ege Bamyasi (1972) [x2] || 9
Elephant Micah - And the Loud Guitars (2004) || 8.5
Knife - Silent Shout (2006) || 7.5
Loop - Heaven's End (1987) || 7.5
Postal Service - Give Up (2003) ||| 8
Perfume Genius - Learning (2010) [x4] *ROTW* || 8.5
Prefuse 73 - Meditation Upon Meditations (2009) || 8.5-
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (2009) | +/++
Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses (2006) | +
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (2010) || 7.5+
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (2004) || 8
Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997) || 7.5
Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995) ||| 8.5
Wrens - Secaucus (1996) || 8
XX - The XX (2009) [x2] +/++/7.5

August 16, 2010
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010) | +
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010) || 7.5
Broken Water - Whet (2010) || 8.5
Cake - Comfort Eagle (2003) [x2] ||| 8
Deer Tick - War Elephant (2007) ||| 8.5
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) ||| 7.5
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999) ||| 9
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) ||| 8.5
Flotation Toy Warning - The Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (2004) [x2] || 8
Good Life - Album of the Year (2004) || 8.5
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King (2010) || 8
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006) || 7.5
Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004) || 7.5
Menomena - Friend and Foe (2007) [x2] || 7.5
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) ||| 8
National - High Violet (2010) || 7.5
Now It's Overhead - Fall Back Open (2004) | ~/~
Radicalfashion - Odori (2007) || 7.5
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere (2004) | +
Six Organs of Admittance - Dust & Chimes (2000) ++/+
Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005) || 9
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs (1991) || 8.5
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) ||| 10
War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008) ||| 8.5
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) ||| 8 [TMT]
Kanye West - Late Registration (2005) || 8.5
Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) || 8.5

August 9, 2010
Leona Anderson - Music to Suffer By (1958) | ↕/+
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (2007) ||| 8.5
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (2009) || 7.5
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009) [x2] || 8
Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP (2003) [x2] ||| 9.5
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (2004) || 8
Emperor X - Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes (And the Dreams That Resulted) (2005) [x2] ||| 8.5
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow (2010) ||| 7.5
Growing - Color Wheel (2006) | [~]/~
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (2001) || 8.5
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography (1976) [x2] || 9
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart (2009) || 7.5
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (2010) [x4] || 7.5
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975) +
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1980) | [++]/++

August 2, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) [x2] ||| 8.5
Arrested Development - 3 Years 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of [x2] (1992) || 8
Blues Control - Local Flavor (2009) || 8
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill (1970) | ~
Leonard Cohen - Songs (1967) v. || 9
Dungen - 4 (2008) || 7.5
Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (1993) [x2] || 8.5
Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (1995) | +
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (2010) || 7.5
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) [x2] ||| 8
Rangda - False Flag (2010) | +
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (2010) [x2] | +/++
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) ||| 8.5
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me (1977) | ↕

July 26, 2010
Leona Anderson - Music to Suffer By (1958) | ↕
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970) || 8.5
Devin Davis - Lonely People of the World, Unite (2005) | ~/~
Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 (2010) | +/+
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (2010) | +/++
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) || 8.5
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000) ||| 9
Engineers - Engineers (2005) || Ө
Sean McCann - Open Resolve (2010) || 7.5
Nico - Chelsea Girls (1967) [x2] || 7.5
Peeesseye & Talibam - Peeeseye & Talibam (2010) || 7.5
Pontiak - Living [x2] (2010) || Ө [TMT]
Mat Riviere Follow Your Heart (2010) [x2] || 8
Seefeel - Quique (1994) ++/++
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines of God (2000) || [√]
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop (2001) [x2] ||| 9
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) ||| 8.5
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006) [x2] ||| 8
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) [x3] ||| 8.5
White Stripes - De Stijl (2000) ||| 8
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (2007) [x2] || 7.5

July 19, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) || 8
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010) | +/+
Broken Water - Whet (2010) || 8.5
Califone - Heron King Blues (2004) || 7.5+
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) [x2] || 9
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (1980) || 8.5
Feelies - The Good Earth (1986) || 8
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) || 8.5
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (2010) || 7.5
Little Claw - Human Taste (2009) || 8.5
Marmoset - Tea Tornado (2009) || 8
Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| 9
Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (1985) 8
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) ||| 8
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom (2009) || 8.5
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR [+]/~
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (2004) || 8
Thins - Postcard Angels (2004) | +
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) || 9.5
Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt (2010) | ++/~
Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi (2008) || 8
Wussy - Wussy (2009) ||| 8

July 12, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) || [8]
Books - The Way Out (2010) | +
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (1983) || 8
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010) | ++
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (1995) ||| 8.5
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (2007) | ++

July 5, 2010
Califone - Heron King Blues (2004) || 8
Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca EP (2010) | ++
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) || 8.5 [TMT]
Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (2004) [x2] || 8
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) || 8.5
Mr. Lif - I Phantom (2002) | ++
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) [x3] || 8
National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003) | ++/++
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) ||| 8.5
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop (2001) ||| 9
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993) ||| 9.5
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990) || 9
Sutras - Thousandaire (2004) | +
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) [x2] || 9.5
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) || 8
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) | [++]/++
Women - Public Strain (2010) || 8

June 28, 2010
Broken Water - Whet (2010) || 8.5
Cornelius - Point (2002) [x2] || 7.5
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (2010) [x2] | ++/+
Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (2004) | ++
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (2010) [x3] || 7.5
R. Stevie Moore - Returns (1976) | ++
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968) v. ||| 10
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom (2009) || 8.5
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009) || 7.5
Pixies - Bossanova (1990) | +/+
Raincoats - The Raincoats (1979) [x3] || 8
Raincoats - Odyshape (1981) [x4] || 8.5
Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart (2010) || 8
Sin Ropas - Holy Broken (2010) || 7.5 [TMT]
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002) ||| 8.5
Jan Steele/John Cage - Voices and Instruments (1976) | [++]/++
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (2004) || 8+
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of (1966) [x2] || 8
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) || 8
Jenny Stearns - Birds Fall (2007) | ~
Ulaan Khol - III (2010) || 7.5
Women - Public Strain (2010) [x3] || 8
Kathy Ziegler - Don't Worry The Danger (2005) | +

June 21, 2010
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989) [x2] || 8
Broken Water - Whet (2010) || 8.5
Can - Monster Movie (1969) || 9
Cave - Pure Moods EP (2010) || Ө [TMT]
Ben Frost - Theory of Machines (2006) | ~
Galaxie 500 - Today (1988) || 8.5
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I’m Going to See the King (2010) ||| 8
Islaja - Ulual Yyy (2007) [x2] || 9
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) || 8
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa [x2] (2009) || 8+
Pontiak - Living (2010) [x2] || √
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) || 8.5
Stereolab - Chemical Chords (2008) || 8+
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010) | √
Ulaan Khol - III (2010) | +/+
Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt (2010) | ++
Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003) [x2] ||| 8.5
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) ||| 8
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) ||| 10
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (2007) || 7.5

June 14, 2010
Akron/Family - Akron/Family (2005) || 9
Amen Dunes - Dia (2009) ||| 9
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006) | [~]/~
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (2009) | ++
Beach House - Devotion (2008) || 8
Flaming Lips (et al) - Dark Side of the Moon (2010) | ~
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006) [x2] | +/++
KRS One - KRS One (1995) | ++
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) || 8
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart (2009) || 7.5
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988) || 8.5
Portishead - Dummy (1994) [x3] ||| 9.5
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) || 8.5
Sebadoh - III (1991) || 9
Shop Assistants - Shop Assistants (1986) || 7.5
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (2007) | +
Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles (1986) || 8
Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart (2005) | ++
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) || 8
Wilco - Summerteeth (1999) ||| 8.5
Yo La Tengo - Painful (1993) ||| 9.5

June 7, 2010
Animal Collective - Feels (2005) ||| 8.5
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) || 8
Bonobo - Black Sands (2010) | ~/~
Stephen Brodsky - Here's to the Future (2010) || 7.5
Cave - Pure Moods EP (2010) || 7.5
Deer Tick - War Elephant (2007) ||| 8.5
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009) ||| 8
Espers - Espers (2004) || 8
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (1985) || 8.5
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010) || Ө
Fridge - Happiness (2001) || 8
Bill Fox - Transit Byzantium (1998) | +
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season (2002) || 7.5
Guided By Voices - Vampire on Titus (1993) || 8
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God (2010) || 7.5+
Juana Molina - Un Dia (2008) || 8-
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) [x2] || 8
National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003) | ++
National - Alligator (2005) ||| 9.5
Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart (2010) | +/+
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs (1991) || 8

May 31, 2010
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy (1969) [x2] | +/+
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973) | ++/++
David Bowie - Station to Station (1976) || 8.5
Broadcast - Haha Sound (2003) ||| 8.5
David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency (2005) ||| 10
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On (1997) || 9-
Burial - Untrue (2007) || 7.5
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970) [x2] || 7.5
Elephant Micah - Echoer's Intent (2010) || 8 [TMT]
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (1985) || 8.5
Fog - Ether Teeth (2003) [x2] || 8
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (2005) [x2] ||| 9
Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (2008) || 7.5
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) | ++/++
M83 - Saturdays=Youth (2008) [x2] || 7.5
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (2010) | +
R. Stevie Moore - Delicate Tension (1978) [x4] || 8.5
National - High Violet (2010) || 7.5
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (1999) [x2] || 8
OOIOO - Feather Float (1999) [x2] || 9
Roommate - We Were Enchanted (2008) [x2] || 8
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (2003) [x2] || 8.5
Russian Futurists - Our Thickness (2005) || 8
Sin Ropas - Holy Broken (2010) || 7.5
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet (1994) || 8.5
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs (1991) [x3] || 8
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) || 8.5
The The - Mind Bomb (1989) | ~

May 24, 2010
Big Star - Third/Sisterlovers (1978) || 8
Books - Lost and Safe (2005) || 8
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970) | +/++
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) || 8.5
Deer Tick - War Elephant (2007) || 8.5
Dinowalrus - % (2010) || 8.5
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965) || 8.5
Four Tet - Pause (2001) [x2] | ~/++
Luminescent Orchestrii - Too Hot To Sleep (2005) | +
Marmoset - Tea Tornado (2009) || 8.5
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography (1976) || 9
National - High Violet (2010) | +/+
Randy Newman - Faust (1995) | ~/~
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) || 7.5
Odd Nosdam - Burner (2005) ||| 8.5
Pumice - Pebbles (2007) || 8.5
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) || 8.5
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) v. ||| 9.5
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine (1978) | +/+
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970) || 8.5
Neil Young - Time Fades Away (1973) | +/+
Neil Young - On a Beach (1974) || 8+
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (1980) ||| 9

May 17, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) || 7.5
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers (1978) | [+]/++
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002) || 9
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) ||| 9.5
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season (2002) +/++
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (1990) || 8
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (2003) || 8
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange (2005) || 7.5
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me (1987) ||| 9
Fog - Ether Teeth (2003) | [~]/++
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) || 8
Illogic - Celestial Clockwork (2004) || 8.5
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan (1996) || 7.5
Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| 9
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Birds on the Water (2006) || 7.5
National - High Violet (2010) | +
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996) || 9
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010) [x2] || 7.5
OOIOO - Feather Float (1999) || 9
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (1991) || 8
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (2003) | +/+
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) ||| 9
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997) || 7.5+
3Ds - The Venus Trail (1993) | √
Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to His Father (1970)
Tsigoti - Private Poverty Speaks to the People of the Party (2010) | ~/~
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett (2005) | +
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) || 8.5

May 10, 2010
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010) [x3] || 8
Autolux - Future Perfect (2004) | ~/[~]
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C (2000) | +/+
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (2010) [x3] || 8
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God (2010) || 7.5
Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery (2009) || 8
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography (1976) [x4] *ROTW* || 8.5
Morning Benders - Big Echo (2010) | ~
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996) || 9
Peeesseye & Talibam - Peeesseye & Talibam (2010) | ++/+
Pontiak - Living (2010) | +
Portastatic - I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle (1994) [x2] | 8
Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart (2010) | +
Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley (2010) | +/+
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star (1973) ||| 9
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs (1991) | ++
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) [x2] || 8
Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth (2002) ||| 8.5
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) || 8
Whiskers - War of Currents (2010) | [~]

May 3, 2010
Admiral Freebee - The Honey & the Knife (2010) | ~
Cave - Pure Moods EP (2010) | √
Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy? (1995) [x2] | +/+
Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 (2010) | +
Deerhoof - The Runners Four (2005) || 8
Dinowalrus - % (2010) || 8.5
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) || 8.5
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) || 9
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) [x2] || 8.5
Field Mice - For Keeps (1991) [x2] | ++/+
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going To See the King (2010) [x5] || 8
Hot Chip - The Warning (2006) || 7.5
Moonshake - Eva Luna (1992) || 8
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) | || 7.5
OOIOO - Feather Float (1999) | +++/++
Peeesseye & Talibam - Peeesseye & Talibam (2010) | ++
Pocahaunted - Make It Real (2010) | +
Portastatic - I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle (1994) | +++
Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land (1967) | ++
Ride - Nowhere (1990) || 7.5
Sightings - City of Straw (2010) | ~
Sin Ropas - Fire Prizes (2005) || [8]
Sin Ropas - Holy Broken (2010) || 8
Squeeze - Singles 45's and Under (1982) v. || +
Stars - Heart (2003) || 7.5
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) [x2] || 8.5
Tape - Luminarium (2008) || 7.5
Thank You - Terrible Two (2008) | √
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) || 9
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) | ++/+
Ulaan Khol - III (2010) | +
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976) v. | [+]/++

April 26, 2010
Stephen Brodsky - Here's to the Future (2010) || 8
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000) | +
Broken Water - Whet (2010) [x2] || 8.5
Caribou - Swim (2010) | ~/~
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) || 8.5
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop (1994) || 9
Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame (2010) | ~
East River Pipe - Poor Fricky (1994) | [+]/+
Elephant Micah - Echoer's Intent (2010) || 7.5
Faust - The Faust Tapes (1973) | ~/++
Flaming Lips - Embryonic (2009) || 7.5
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010) [x2] | √
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (1994) || 8.5
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King (2010) | [8]
Moondog - Moondog (1969) | +
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996) || 8.5+
Parts and Labor - Receivers (2008) | √
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (2010) | ~
Supersilent - 6 (2003) || 9
Tsigoti - Private Poverty Speaks to the People of the Party (2010) | ~
Scott Tuma - Dandelion (2010) | ++
Velocity Girl - Copacetic (1993) || [8]
Verve - A Storm in Heaven (1993) || 7.5
Wussy - Wussy (2009) || 8

April 19, 2010
Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000) || 8
Beach House - Teen Dream (2010) || 7.5
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002) || 8.5
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005) ||| 9
Broken Water - Whet (2010) | ++
Cave - Pure Moods EP (2010) | ~
Elephant Micah - Echoer's Intent (2010) || 8-
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of the Bible Birds (2010) || 8
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) | +/+
Heaven And - Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King (2010) [x2] | +/++
Koop - Waltz For Koop (2002) || 8.5
Sean McCann - Open Resolve (2010) | +/+
Rentals - The Return of the Rentals (1995) || Ө
Alex Tedesco - Future Strains (2010) | ~
Velocity Girl - Copacetic (1993) || 8
Ween - The Mollusk (1997) || 8
Wolf People - Tidings (2010) || 7.5

April 12, 2010
Stephen Brodsky - Here's to the Future (2010) [x3] *ROTW* || 8
Cat Power - You Are Free (2003) | √
Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (2006) || 8
Deerhunter - Cryptograms (2007) || 7.5
Dinowalrus - % (2010) || 8.5-
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) || 8
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of the Bible Birds (2010) || 8
Evens - Get Evens (2006) || 7.5
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) | ~/++
The Good Life - Album of the Year (2004) ||| 8
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010) | ~/~
Haunted Houses - The Invisible War of the Mind (2010) | +
Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire (2004) | [+]/+
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (2003) | +
Sin Ropas - Holy Broken (2010) || 8
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (2010) || [7.5]
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider (1998) || 8
Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) [x3] || 8+
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010) | ~
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) ||| 10
Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi (2008) | +/+
Zola Jesus - Stridulum EP (2010) | ~

April 5, 2010
Laurie Anderson - United States Live (1984) | [+]
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) ||| 9.5
Books - Thought for Food (2002) || 9
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000) | √
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (2003) ||| 9
Califone - Roots & Crowns (2006) ||| 9.5
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984) || 8
Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony EP (2010) [x2] || Ө [TMT]
Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (2006) || 8
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (2007) || 8
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) | ++/+
Elephant Micah - Echoer's Intent (2010) [x2] || 8
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) || 9
Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (1993) || 8.5
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (2008) ~/~
Guided By Voices - Propeller (1992) | ~
Guided By Voices - Vampire On Titus (1993) | +/+
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God (2010) | √
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977) || 8.5
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (1978) || 9+
Marmoset - Tea Tornado (2009) || 8
Milk 'n Cookies - Milk 'n Cookies (1975) || 8
Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches (2001) | [~]/+
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) ||| 9.5
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom (2009) || 8.5
Postal Service - Give Up (2003) ||| 8
Sin Ropas - Holy Broken (2010) [x2] | ++/+
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) | +
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 (1992) | +
Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to His Father (1970) | +/+
Velocity Girl - Copacetic (1993) | +/+
Ween - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (1990) || 8+

March 29, 2010
Adorable - Against Perfection (1993) | -
Bardo Pond - Dilate (2001) | ~/++
Bats - Daddy's Highway (1987) || 8.5
Bjork - Vespertine (2001) | +/++
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) ||| 9.5
Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (2006) | √
Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony EP (2010) || Ө
Elephant Micah - Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (2010) | ++
Elephant Micah - Echoer's Intent (2010) | ++
Faust - IV (1974) ||| 10
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971) || 8
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2010) || 8
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya (1981) || 9
Marmoset - Tea Tornado (2009) | ++/++
Nurse and Soldier - Marginalia (2006) || 7.5
Pram - Helium (1994) | ++/+
Rooms - Rooms (2010) [x3] || Ө [TMT]
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993) ||| 9.5
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool (2006) ||| 8.5
Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997) || 8
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) || 8.5
U.S. Girls - Go Grey (2010) | √
Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) || 8.5

March 22, 2010
Amen Dunes - Dia (2009) ||| 9
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (2004) || 8
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) || 9+
The Fire Show - Saint the Fire Show (2002) [x3] *ROTW* || 8+
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic (2005) | [+]
Malachai - Ugly Side of Love (2010) || 8
Meat Puppets - II (1984) ||| 9
Odd Nosdam - Burner (2005) || 8.5
Oneida - Anthems of the Moon (2001) || [8]
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (1991) || 8.5
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) || 8.5
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (2010) | +/+
Sin Ropas - Fire Prizes (2005) | +/++
Social Distortion - Social Distortion (1990) | ~
Scott Walker - The Drift (2006) || [√]

Format Update Here: See March 26 Note Below

March 15, 2010
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (1993) || 8
Beach House - Beach House (2006) || 8
Big Star - Radio City (1974) | √+
Caribou - Swim (2010) | Ө
Clipd Beaks - To Realize (2010) | √
Clouddead - Clouddead (2001) || 8.5+
Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (2006) | Ө+
Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony EP [x2] (2010) || Ө
Destroyer - Your Blues (2004) || 8.5
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (2010) | Ө+
Elephant Micah - And the Loud Guitars (2004) || 8.5+
Emperor X - Central Hug/FriendArmy/Fractaldunes (2005) ||| 8.5
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010) | Ө
Husky Rescue - Ship of Light (2010) | 7.5
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (2009) ||| 8.5
Kaki King - Junior (2010) | Ө+
The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007 (2005) | Ө+
Loscil - Endless Falls (2010) | 7.5 [TMT]
Marmoset - Tea Tornado (2009) | 7.5
Sean McCann - Open Resolve (2010) | 7.5
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) | 7.5
Music Tapes - First Imaginary Symphony For Nomad (1999) | √
Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage (2009) || 8
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) || 8+
Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley (2010) | √+
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010) | 7.5
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) || 8.5
Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi (2008) | 7.5
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) || 8
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) || 8.5
Woods - At Rear House (2007) | √+

March 8, 2010
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele (1996) | √+
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (1982) | 8+
Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak (1984) | 7.5
Bonobo - Black Sands (2010) | Ө
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness (2005) || 8
Ned Collette - Future Suture (2007) | 7.5
Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony EP (2010) | Ө
Dinowalrus - % (2010) || 8.5 [TMT]
Elf Power - When the Red King Comes (1997) | 7.5
Enya - Enya (1986) | 7.5
Enya - Watermark (1988) || 8
Evens - Get Evens (2006) | 7.5
Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo (2010) | ≠ ("Part VII")
Fursaxa - Alone in the Dark Wood (2007) || 8
Peter Gabriel - Passion (1989) | Ө
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face Of My God (2010) | Ө
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004) | √+
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) | Ө
Mclusky - Do Dallas (2002) || 8.5
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Birds on the Water (2007) | 7.5
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005) ||| 8.5
OOIOO - Gold and Green (2000) | 7.5
Owen Pallett - Heartland (2010) | Ө
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988) || 8.5
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) | 7.5
Sparklehorse R.I.P - Good Morning Spider (1998) || 8
Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You (2010) | Ө+
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) || 8.5
Kurt Weisman - Orange (2010) [x2] *ROTW* | 7.5
Wolf People - Tidings (2010) | 7.5

March 1, 2010
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (2001) || 8.5
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) || 8.5
Daedelus - Love to Make Music To (2008) | 7.5
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959) || 9
Dinowalrus - % (2010) [x3] *ROTW* || 8
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop (1994) | 8
Fat Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies Pregnant With Pregnant Babies (2006) | √
Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo (2010) | Ө
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989) ||| 9
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2004) || 8
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (2010) | Ө
Office - Mecca (2009) | ~7.5~
Lou Reed - Berlin (1973) | 7.5
Remy Zero - The Golden Hum (2001) ||| 8.5
Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You (2010) | 7.5
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (2007) ||| 8
Untied States - Instant Everything, Constant Nothing (2010) || 7.5 [TMT]
Wolf People - Tidings (2010) | 7.5

February 22, 2010
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (1982) | 8+
Antlers - Hospice (2009) ||| 9
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) | 7.5
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) | Ө
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop (1994) *ROTW* | 8
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) || 8 [TMT]
First Dog to Visit the Center of the Earth - Colossus Archosaur (2010) | Ө
Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm (2010) | 7.5
Inca Ore - Silver Sea Surfer School (2009) | Ө
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977) v. || 8.5
Little Claw - Human Taste (2009) || 8.5
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) | 7.5
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968) v. ||| 10
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon (1970) v. | 7.5
R.E.M - Reckoning (1984) v. | √
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2010) [x2] || 8
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (2010) | 7.5
Jane Siberry - No Borders Here (1984) | v. 7.5
Untied States - Instant Everything, Constant Nothing (2010) [x2] || 7.5
U.S. Girls - Go Grey (2010) | 7.5
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (2006) || 8.5
Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2010) | √

February 15, 2010
Apples In Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker (1995) | Ө
Jay Bennett R.I.P - The Magnificent Defeat (2006) | ~Ө~
Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (2009) | 7.5
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007) *ROTW* | 8
Ned Collette - Future Suture (2007) | 7.5
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) | 8
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (2005) || 8.5
Galaxie 500 - Today (1988) || 8.5
Husky Rescue - Ship of Light (2010) | Ө
Pinkie Maclure - Favourite (1995) ||| 9
Major Organ and the Adding Machine - Major Organ and the Adding Machine (2001) | 7.5
Memoryhouse - The Years EP (2010) [x2] | 7.5
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968) v. ||| 10
Roommate - We Were Enchanted (2008) || 8
Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972) [x2] | 7.5
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (2003) || 8.5
Russian Futurists - Our Thickness (2005) || 8
Shrimp Boat - Duende (1992) | 7.5
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) || 9
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (1986) | Ө
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive (1987) v. | 7.5
Talking Heads - 77 (1977) | 7.5
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) || 8.5
Tocotronic - Schall und Wahn (2010) | Ө
Untied States - Instant Everything, Constant Nothing (2010) | 7.5
Woods - Some Shame (2008) ||| 8.5

February 8, 2010
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished || (2000) 8.5
Clipd Beaks - To Realize (2010) | Ө
Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address (2005) | 8
Dosh - Dosh (2001) || 8.5
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) [x2] || 8
Eluvium - Similes (2010) | Ө
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow (2010) || [7.5] [TMT]
Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl (1994) || 9
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (2006) ||| 8
Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) | 7.5
Little Claw - Human Taste (2009) | 7.5
John Maus - Love Is Real (2007) | Ө
Red Stars Theory - But Sleep Came Slowly (1997) | Ө
Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (2010) | 7.5
Royal Trux - Royal Trux (1988) | √
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2010) | 7.5
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (1996) | Ө
Tape - Luminarium (2008) | 7.5
Unidentified Flavors - Live Active Cultures: Assorted Fuckups 2005-2009 (2009) | √
Untied States - Instant Everything, Constant Nothing (2010) | 7.5
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) | ~8~
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (2004) ||| 8
Wussy - Wussy (2009) || 8

February 1, 2010
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele (1996) | ~Ө~
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) ||| 9.5
Ariel Pink - Scared Famous (2002) || ~7.5~
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002) | 8
Brand New - Daisy (2009) | ≠ ("Be Gone")
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) || 9.5
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009) || 8-
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) | 7.5
Ecstatic Sunshine - Yesterday's Work (2009) | Ө
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (2005) || 8.5+
Fulton Lights - Fulton Lights (2007) | Ө
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow (2010) [x3] || 7.5
Girls - Album (2009) | Ө
Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding Jazz Records (2001) | Ө
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (2006) | 8
Little Claw - Human Taste (2009) | 7.5
Malachai - Ugly Side of Love (2010) [x3] || 8
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn (2001) || ~7.5~
Pinback - Pinback (1999) | 7.5
Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe (1980) | 7.5
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This (2010) | Ө

January 25, 2010
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002) | 8+
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2007) | Ө
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling EP (1986) v. | ≠ ("Take the Skinheads Bowling")
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu (1970) v. || 7.5
Dredg - El Cielo (2002) | Ө
Josephine Foster - Graphic as a Star (2009) | √
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow (2010) [x2] || 7.5
Harvestman - In a Dark Tongue (2009) | 7.5
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) | 7.5
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) | Ө
Jesus Lizard - Goat (1991) || 8
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977) v. | 8
Loscil - Endless Fall (2010) | Ө
Mozart - Jupiter (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) | √
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (2009) || 8
Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar (1996) || 8.5
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (1991) || 8
Shearwater - Rook (2008) || ≠ ("The Snow Leopard")
Sonic Youth - Evol (1986) || 8.5
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (2010) [x2] || 7.5 [TMT]
These New Puritans - Hidden (2010) | ~Ө~
Neil Young - Time Fades Away (1973) | 7.5

January 18, 2010
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (2005) | 7.5
Beach House - Teen Dream (2010) | 7.5
Can - Future Days (1973) | 7.5
Cluster - Zuckerzeit (1974) || 8
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange (2005) | 7.5
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (2004) || 8
Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (2010) [x3] || 7.5
Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain (2006) || 8.5
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira (1988) | 8
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow (2010) | Ө
Impossible Shapes - Tum (2005) | Ө
Koop - Waltz For Koop (2002) || 8
Loscil - Endless Fall (2010) | Ө
Massive Attack - Heligoland (2010) | Ө
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) ||| 9.5
Scout Niblett - The Calcination Of... (2010) [x2] | 7.5
OOIOO - Feather Float (1999) | 8
Owen Pallett - Heartland (2010) | √
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992) || 8.5
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) ||| 9-
Catherine Ribeiro and Alpes - Ame Debout (1972) | 7.5
Seefeel - Quique (1994) | 7.5
Jane Siberry - The Walking (1987) | 7.5
Sin Ropas - Fire Prizes (2005) | 7.5
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) ||| 9
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (2010) [x3] || 7.5
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds (2009) | Ө
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) || 8.5
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) ||| ~10~
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (2002) | 8
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (1968) || 8.5

Format Update Here: See January 20 Note Below

January 11, 2010
Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (2008)8
Jackson Browne - World In Motion(1989) Ө
Burial - Untrue (2007) [x2]7.5+
Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up(1979) Ө
The Gris Gris - The Gris Gris(2004) ~7.5~
Half Japanese - Charmed Life(1988) 9 << 8.5
Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms(2008) 8
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band(1970) 8.5
John Lennon - Imagine (1971)9
My Computer - Vulnerabilia (2002)7.5
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996)8.5
No Age - Nouns (2008) Ө
OOIOO - Taiga (2006) 7.5
Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero EP (1978) 8
Pram - Helium (1995) 8
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - From Below (2009) 7.5
Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995) 7.5
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009) 7.5
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988)9.5
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) [x2] *ROTW* 8.5+
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006) 8.5
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) ~8~
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (2006) 8+
Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992) 7.5

January 4, 2010
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (2009) 7.5
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (1999) 8
Califone - Califone EP (1998) 7.5
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978) 7.5
Destroyer - City of Daughters (1998) 7.5+
Enya - Watermark v. (1988) 8
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (2006) 8 << 8.5
Guided By Voices - Vampire On Titus (1993) 8+
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) 8
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979) 8.5
Lenny Valentino - Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj (2001) 8
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory of Hearing (2000) √ << √+ 
Randy Newman - Randy Newman's Faust (1995) Ө
Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967) 7.5
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (2009) 8 << 8
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance (2001) 8
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues (1995) 7.5
Portishead - Third (2008) 9.5
Pumice - Pebbles (2007) // 8.5 << 8.5 << 8.5
Silent Kids - Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds (2007) [x2] 7.5
Snapper - Snapper EP (1988) 7.5
Stereolab - Peng v. (1992) 8.5
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991) [x2] 9
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) 8.5 << 8+
39 Clocks - Subnarcotic (1982) 8
Ween - The Pod (1991) 8.5
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008) [x2] *ROTW* 8+
The Who - ...Sell Out (1967) 8.5+

December 28, 2009
American Analog Set - The Fun of Watching Fireworks (1996) 8.5
Breeders - Last Splash (1993) 8.5
Carsick Cars - Carsick Cars (2007) 8
Chumbawamba - Tubthumper (1997) √
Cocteau Twins - Milk and Kisses (1996) 7.5
Ned Collette - Jokes and Trials (2006) 8.5
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (2005) √
Flying Saucer Attack - Further (1995) 8.5
Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (2006) 7.5
Four Tet - Rounds (2003) 9
Girl Talk - Night Ripper (2006) 7.5
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (2008) ~7.5~
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009) Ө
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005) 7.5
Lush - Spooky (1992) Ө
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009) 7.5
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968) 10
Notwist - Neon Golden (2002) 8.5
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (1995) 7.5
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (1997) ≠ ("6 Underground")
Woods - Some Shame (2008) 8.5

December 21, 2009
Beach House - Teen Dream (2010) 8
Blues Control - Local Flavor (2009) 8
Bonobo - Animal Magic (2000) 7.5
David Bowie - Low (1977) 9
Broadcast - Haha Sound (2003) 9
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues (2000) ≠ ("Transcendental Blues")
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974) 8.5
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) 9 << 8.5
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season (2002) 7.5
Grandaddy - Sumday (2003) 7.5
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008) 8
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (1995) 9
Handsome Furs - Face Control (2009) Ө
Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) 8 << 8
Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer (1970) 8.5
Kreng - L'autopsie Phenomenale de Dieu (2009) 7.5
Jasun Martz - The Pillory (1978) 7.5+
Loreena McKennitt - Book of Secrets (1997) 7.5
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (2009) 8.5
Not Drowning, Waving - Claim (1989) Ө
Notwist - Neon Golden (2002) 8.5
Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968) 8.5
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990) 8.5
Supersilent - 6 (2003) [x2] 9 << 9 << 9
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine (2009) Ө
Taken By Trees - East of Eden (2009) Ө
Tape - Luminarium (2008) 8
Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (2004) 8+
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) 8.5+
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993) 7.5
War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008) 8.5
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997) 10

December 14, 2009
Amon Duul II - Yeti (1970) 9
David Bowie - Station to Station v. (1976) 8.5
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (2006) 7.5
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970) ↕
Can - Tago Mago (1971) 9
Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998) 7.5
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Pocket Symphonies For Lonesome Subway Cars (2001) 7.5
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Twinkle Echo (2003) 8.5
Circulatory System - Signal Morning (2009) 8
Leonard Cohen - Songs (1967) v. 9 << 9
Deer Tick - War Elephant (2007) 9- << 9
Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear (2006) 8
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (2007) Ө+
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (2005) 8
Ghost - Lama Rabi Rabi (1996) 7.5
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya (1981) [x2] 9 << 8.5
Islaja - Ulual Yyy (2007) 9
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (2009) 8.5
Kreng - L'autopsie Phenomenale de Dieu (2009) 7.5+
Little Wings - Light Green Leaves (2002) ≠ ("Boom")
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan (1996) 7.5
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP (1988) 7.5
Prefuse 73 - Meditation Upon Meditations (2009) 8.5 << 8.5 << 8 << 8
Rubik - Dada Bandits (2009) Ө
Scrawl - Travel On, Rider (1996) 8
Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005) 9
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline EP (1993) 7.5
Stereolab - Ping Pong EP (1994) 7.5
Stereolab - Wow and Flutter EP (1994) 8
Supersilent - 6 (2003) 9
Neil Young - On the Beach (1974) 8

Between November 16 and December 14, I only listed albums that I hadn't yet reviewed on my blog, the ones on which I'd "made up my mind" so to speak. I also dragged the entry for an album if I listened to it again; these days I figure if I listen to something three or four times I should be able to toss out my two cents on it.

December 7, 2009
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (1989) 8
Caribou - Andorra (2007) 8.5
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (2006) 8
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn (2003) √
Delgados - Hate (2002) 7.5
Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) 8
Milk 'n' Cookies - Milk 'n' Cookies (1975) 8.5 << 8.5 << 8
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory of Hearing (2000) √+
Mu-Ziq - Lunatic Harness (1997) 7.5
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (2009) 7.5
Prefuse 73 - Meditation Upon Meditations (2009) 8.5 << 8+ << 8
Radiohead - Kid A (2000) 9.5
Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (1996) 7.5+
Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes (1996) 8
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988) 9
Velvet Underground - VU (1985) 8
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968) 9.5
LaMonte Young and the Forever Bad Blues Band - Just Stompin (1993) 7.5

November 30, 2009
Afghan Whigs - Congregation (1992) 8.5
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993) 8.5
Julianna Barwick - Florine EP (2009) 7.5+
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) 9.5 << 9.5
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) 9
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009) 8
Cocorosie - La Maison de Mon Reve (2004) 7.5+
Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP (2003) 9
Gareth Dickson - Collected Recordings (2009) 7.5-
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (1988) 8.5
Dragging an Ox Through Water - Rebukes EP (2006) 8
Flying Lizards - Flying Lizards (1979) 8
Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl (1994) 9+
Grooms - Rejoicer (2009) 8
Half Japanese - Charmed Life (1988) 8.5+
Hotel Alexis - Goliath I'm On Your Side (2007) 8.5
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King v. (1969) 7.5
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000) 9.5
Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage (2009) 8
Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002) 8.5
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (2009) 7.5-
Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me (1992) ~7.5~

November 23, 2009
Balky Mule - The Length of the Rail (2009) 7.5
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (1978) 8-
Leonard Cohen - Songs v. (1967) 9
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975) 10
Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007 (2005) 7.5+
Micachu and the Shapes  - Jewellery (2009) 8+
Soft Machine - Volume One (1968) 8.5-
Soft Machine - Volume Two (1969) 9
Richard Swift - Dressed Up For the Letdown (2007)  ●
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970) 7.5
Velocity Girl - Copacetic (1993) 7.5+
Tom Ze - Todos Os Olhos (1973) 8

November 16, 2009
A Faulty Chromosome - As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit (2008) 8 << 8
Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers (2008) 7.5-
Bibio - Vignetting the Compost (2009) 7.5
Brilliant Colors - Introducing (2009) Ө
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (2003) 8.5
Baxter Dury - Len Parrot's Memorial Lift (2002) 7.5
Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993) 8.5
John Martyn - Bless the Weather (1973) 7.5
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun (1985) 8.5 << 8.5
Meat Puppets - Mirage (1987) 7.5-
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (2009) 8
Pumice - Pebbles (2007) 8.5 << 8.5
Russian Futurists - The Method of Modern Love (2000) 7.5
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (2003) 8.5
Russian Futurists - Our Thickness (2005) 8
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (2002) 8-
Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities - Lucas (2007) 7.5+
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993) 10
Patti Smith - Horses (1975) 8
Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles (1986) 8
This Heat - This Heat (1979) 9
Tune-Yards - Bird Brains (2009) Ө