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Drake - Take Care: Frustrating and uneven.

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Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Nights: A brooding desperation in the vocals make it a must listen hardcore-ish album.

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Moneyball was really good

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Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways To Die: Fairly generic hardcore, as if that is ever a bad thing.

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Dead To Me - Moscow Penny Ante: Energetic and catchy. Yes, this is what pop-punk should be.

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Danzig - How The Gods Kill: I can think of no more perfect an album to listen to while driving in the rain at night.

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Crime In Stereo - Is Dead: Just never grabbed my attention.

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Crazy Arm - Union City Breath: Not sure what to call, or how to describe it, but it was very enjoyable.

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Crazy Arm - Cross Country: Songs that were meant to be played live.

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Childish Gambino - Camp: Just different enough to be interesting, just familiar enough to get attention. Looking forward to more.

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Chris Carrabba - Covered In The Flood: None of these will change your opinion of the original or the person covering them.

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Black Keys - El Camino: Album needs no more hype, but deserves every bit of it.

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Beach Boys - SMiLE: Great to have the original but need more time to determine the definitive version.

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Bayside - Killing Time: Perfectly fine pop punk, but it fails to convey the tour de force that is their live show.

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Ambitions - Stranger: A fun, light hardcore album.

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All Pigs Must Die - God Is War: The intensity feels tacked on compared to their excellent debut EP.

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Algernon Cadwaller - Some Kind Of Cadwaller: Best Cap'n Jazz album since their discography came out.

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Wugazi - 13 Chambers: Why do not more hip-hop albums use traditional instrumentation?

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Saul Williams - Volcanic Sunlight: More tolerable than his past albums, but just barely.

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George Watsky - A New Kind Of Sexy Mixtape: His poetry is still better, but the divide is getting narrower.

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Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto: No easy way to put this: it is garbage, maybe even more than X&Y.

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Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me: More vocal-heavy than past albums.

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Thrice - Major/Minor: I just could not get into it. Certainly not a bad album, but felt a bit generic.

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Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday: I am sure fans of their earlier work will love this.

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System Of A Down - System Of A Down: So glad I listened to Toxicity, a stronger album, first.

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Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer: Better than her brother's output, but no match for the Fiery Furnaces.

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Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride: More melodic than I remember, but it is to their benefit.

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Pentimento - Wrecked: I feel like this band would not exist with Hot Water Music.

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Park - It Won't Snow Where You're Going: Fairly generic pop/punk from the mid-2000s.

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Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne: Far exceeded my admittedly low expectations.

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The Elected - Bury Me In My Ring: Disappointing.

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The Drums - Portamento: No reason to choose this over their debut.

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Death Grips - Exmilitary: I am completelY surprised by how much I enjoyed this.

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"Dad" is another reason not to text and drive.

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Das Racist - Relax: Still waiting for that elusively consistent album from them.

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Dad

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D.R.U.G.S - D.R.U.G.S.: For fans of TREOS and Chiodos.

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Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien: Not as dense as I remember.

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Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall: I am no longer looking forward to the new album.

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Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO: For when you do not want to take thing so seriously.

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Bo Burnham - Words, Words, Words: What do you call a kid with one arm and an eye patch? Names.

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Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing: Were I to be asked what kind of music this was, my response would be "the good kind."

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Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God: Heavier is not always better. In this case, however, it is.

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Blacklisted - We're Unstoppable: And yet it unfortunately stopped.

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Beirut - The Rip Tide: Not as memorable as previous efforts.

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At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command: Proto-Mars Volta and it is awesome.

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All Pigs Must Die - All Pigs Must Die: Perfect blend of heavy and melodic. Glad it was only an EP.

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Adele - 19: Beyond excellent, even if not a daily listener.

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Wilco - The Whole Love: Always enjoyable, just never memorable enough.

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Saves The Day - Daybreak: Best of the trilogy? Yes, and the others were good!

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Against Me - Black Crosses: Surprising how many of the released versions I prefer.

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U2 - Achtung Baby: Certainly enjoyable, but not revolutionary.

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Street Dogs - Street Dogs: Their best album, even if the melodies are sometimes too familiar.

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George Thorogood - 2120 South Michigan Avenue: Similar in style to modern Dylan albums.

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Gill Scot-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Title track steals the show from an otherwise solid collection.

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REM - Life's Rich Pageant: I wasn't sold initially, but after listening to the demos I'm starting to believe in its greatness.

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Noah And The Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down: Just something so inviting about this band.

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Sondre Lerche - Sondre Lerche: It's getting hard to pick a favorite album of his.

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Robyn Hitchcock - I often dream of trains: So interesting that I need to listen again.

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Test

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Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax: Reminiscent of Violent Femmes, so it's pretty awesome.

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Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi - Rome: Ironically, one of the better soundtracks.

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Bon Iver - Bon Iver: Follow-ups are always hard.

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Jello Biafra - Enhanced Methods Of Questioning: I'd have preferred a new spoken word album.

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Bad Meets Evil - Hell The Sequel: To follow up a solid LP with something this good is rare.

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Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See: Don't like the evolution...

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Against Me! - Total Clarity: Providing new, better perspective on my least-favorite Against Me! album.

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Okkervil River - I Am Very Far: More energy wouldn't hurt.

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My Morning Jacket - Circuital: Good, but not as good as past efforts.

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Foundation - When The Smoke Clears: Beyond adequate heaviness, but offers little new and exciting.

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New job keeps me in the car 3 hours a day. Taking that opportunity to catch up on some audio books.

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Nas - It Was Written: Hip-hop used to be this good on a consistent basis. What happened?

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Fucked Up - David's Town: Awesome concept, mixed results.

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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues: Proving, once again, the difficulty in following up a very strong debut.

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TVOTR - Nine Types of Light: Possibly their catchiest album yet, but I would love more intensity.

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Thursday - No Devolucion: Epitome of a headphones-required album.

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Jack Savoretti - Between The Minds: More John Legend than Bob Dylan.

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Leon Russell - The Best Of: I'd never heard of him but definitely worthy of a hits collection.

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Roll The Tanks - Suffer City: Really great Clash-inspired rock.

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Foo Fighters - Wasting Light: Their best since Colour and Shape.

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Foo Fighters - Medium Rare: Excellent all around.

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Architecture In Helsinki - Moment Bends: While I do not see myself listening regularly, it is far more accessible.

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Andrew WK - Party All The Goddamn Night: Showing glimpses as a true successor to I Get Wet. #fingerscrossed

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Yeasayer - Odd Blood: A little too avant garde.

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Surfer Blood - Astro Turf: Just enough good to keep me interested.

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The Strokes - Angles: I've tried, but I think it's time to give up on them.

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Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns: I'd have to be in a shoegaze kind of mood to listen again.

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She And Him - Volume 2: To adequately follow up a surprisingly good debut is a remarkable feat.

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Walter Schriefels - An Open Letter To The Scene: One of the most dependable singer-songwriters delivers again.

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Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing: Third time's the charm for this always-promising band.

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Rolling Stones - Forty Licks; Less-than-expected filler makes for a good compilation.

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Rival Schools - Pedals: Very overdue. Almost worth it.

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Lou Reed - Transformer: So many good New Wave albums, so little time.

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Ratatat - LP4: Their least-compelling album yet.

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Radiohead - King Of Limbs: Extremely passive and almost instantly forgettable.

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REM - Collapse Into Now: Extremely solid, but not likely to enter rotation.

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Tom Petty - Mojo: Glimpses of mojo.

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Of Montreal - The Controlling Sphere: I'm becoming increasingly disinterested.

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Noah And The Whale - Last Night On Earth: Another great summer time releaxing album.

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Nightmares For a Week - Don't Die: I hope this band doesn't die before putting out the great album I think it's capable of.

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