Tool - Fear Inoculum: Good? I guess?

Slow Fire Pistol - Love Riddled with Conditions: Another great release.

Noise Addict - Meet the Real You: Ben Lee fronted, punk adjacent.

Microwave - Death is a Warm Blanket: Album of the year contender.

Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs: Magnificent.

A Star Is Born: Eliminate the dialog and a few lesser tracks and this thing kills.

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster: Highs are so high, but the lows? So very low.

JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs: Accessible.

Ghostface Killah - Ghostface Killahs: Yup, this is him.

Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes: A mostly great collection of songs.

Fly Pan Am - C'est ca: Still cannot figure out why these guys always click for me.

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing: How did I miss this?!

Ceremony - In The Spirit World Now: I need to change my frame of mind before listening to these guys.

Anxious - Never Better: Groovy hardcore that hits a lot of the right notes.

Saul Williams - Encrypted & Vulnerable: Vulnerable seems apt.

Wear Your Wounds - Rust on the Gates of Heaven: Nice to have on in the background.

Verse en Coma - Rialto: The best post-City of Caterpillar.

Wound Man/Regional Justice Center Split: Quick hit split when you need something heavy in your day.

Various - 1977-The Year That Punk Broke: So many gems.

TSOL - TSOL: Better than the LP.

TSOL - Dance With Me: A case of judging a band by its fans hurts me again.

Soul Glo - The NIgga In Me Is Me: Clear progression forward.

Soul Glo - Untitled: Loud, chaotic, emotional.

Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Uninsides Nonstep Remix Album: Better than anticipate, but just makes me want to listen to the album.

Regional Justice Center - Institution: Heavy.

Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains: Hard not to listen through the prism of what happened.

Pure Prairie League - Bustin' Out: Amei is the star, but the rest really hangs in there.

Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape: Big step up.

Oso Oso - Real Stories of True People Who Kind of Look Like Monsters: Strong Brand New vibe.

Northern Towns - Good as Gold: I miss OMDB.

Lingua Ignota - Caligula: More brooding than brash.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest: Heavy Gizzard is good Gizzard.

Ill Repute - What Happens Next: Not as good as the demo or debut, but at 15 minutes it is hard to argue with.

Ill Repute - Land Of No Toilets: Shorter, faster, louder.

Ill Repute - Demo: 1982?!

Haram - Drescher: A little safe given the pedigree.

Glass Beach - The First Glass Beach Album: A lot to unpack here.