Alt-J - An Awesome Wave: Sometimes it takes a full album to understand the praise. This is such an album.

Alabama Shakes - Boys And Girls: If you like Black Keys, or good blues rock, this is for you.

Aficionado - Aficionado: Just compelling enough to make me want to come back to it later.

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen: I can see this working its way into regular rotation.

Adamantium - From The Depths Of Depression: Unfortunately sounds incredibly dated.

3 - Revisions: Entertaining, but not as good as Wake Pig.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!: Cementing their legacy as the only post-rock band that matters.

Coheed And Cambria - The Afterman Ascension: Odd sequencing a major distraction.

Green Day - Uno: Positively subdued compared to the pomposity of the last album.

Bob Dylan - Tempest: A fine way to go out, if rumors, and titles, are true.

Frank Turner - Poetry Of The Deed: Could tour with Dropkick Murphys or Chuck Ragan.

Forever Came Calling - Hope Passion: Head and shoulders above their peers in the Brand New sound alike competition.

Jack White - Blunderbuss: Showing, again, why he is the most compelling artist making music.

Various - Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams: Just awesome.

Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead: I have trouble getting into the vocal delivery.

TS And Past Haunts - Gone And Goner: No substitute for a new Piebald album.

Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball: Unashamedly his.

Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror: Band/concept continues to grow on me.

Sleigh Bells - RT

Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods: Mildly disappointing.

The Shins - Port Of Morrow: Incredibly underwhelming.

Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure: Several singles worthy of repeat listens.

Matt Pryor - May Day: Would not be my first choice for where to start for his related albums.

Portugal. The Man - The Mountain In The Clouds: Perfect album for a live setting in a drug-induced state.

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake: Certainly good, but best of last year? I need more time.

Randy Newman - 12 Songs: Sometimes excellent execution trumps uniqueness.

Off! - Off!: More please!

of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks: Hissing Fauna continues to be the yardstick by which their albums measure up. Not close this time.

The Nighty Nite - Dimples: I miss The Paper Chase.

Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy: Always enjoyable but mostly forgettable.

The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past: Yet another great album, almost like they can do no wrong.

Mars Volta - Noctourniquet: Borderline traditional.

Liverpool - Women & Work: Feels like a very grown-up album.

Ben Kweller - Go Fly A Kite: He has aged well.

Killer Mike - PL3DGE: Best hip-hop album I have heard in a while.

Japandroids - Celebration Rock: Certainly reason to celebrate.

Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting: Wife walked in while this was on and thought it was Coldplay.

Hot Water Music - Exister: My favorite album of their's.

Dr. John - Locked Down: No part of this album feels forced, but all of it feels awesome.

Death Grips - The Money Store: Certainly more accessible, but less engaging than debut. Not likely to get many more listens.

Dead Swans - Anxiety And Everything Else: Over before I had a chance to get into it.

Cursive - I Am Gemini: Lacking in intensity.

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas: Certainly respectable for what it is, but not somethings will listen to repeatedly.

Cheap Girls - Giant Orange: Giant awesome would be more apt.

Ceremony - Zoo: Makes we want to revisit the entire post-punk genre. I think I missed something the first time around.

Cartel - Chroma: For all the hype, it has not held up over time unless you were there.

Blu - NoYork!: So much potential, so little success.

Black Breath - Sentenced To Life: Extremely heavy but engrossing music is like Moby Dick. Meet Moby Dick.

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself: Title track feels out of place on this superb set of stripped down songs.

The Cult - Electric: Garage rock that likely sounds better live. Find out Sunday.

The Assistant - We'll Make The Roads By Walking: The debut still gets trotted out now and again. This one not likely to share the same fate.

Book kick. Music to resume in a few weeks.

Tom Waits - Bad As Me: It is official, I need more Tom Waits in my life.

Taylor Swift - Fearless: I hated almost all of this, but wanted to like it.

She And Him - Christmas: Not going to supplant anything I would normally listen to.

Samhain - November-Coming-Fire: Good, but not as engaging as his other bands.

The Roots - undun: Cannot wait to devour the rest of their catalog.

Roll The Tanks - Goodnight, Jimmy Lee: Looking forward to the new full length!

On The Rise - Burning Inside: Perfectly adequate youth crew meets pop punk album.

No Turning Back - Holding On: Fairly generic hardcore.

New Found Glory - Radiosurgery: If possible, this is their poppiest album yet.

The Misfits - Casket Box: I now understand, and appreciate, the fanaticism surrounding these guys.

Miles Away - Endless Roads: One of the most consistently listenable hardcore albums I have heard in a while.

Mastodon - The Hunter: Heavy without being hard, mellow without being cheesy.

Into It. Over It. - Proper: Makes me miss Piebald.

I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United: Far from unique, but extremely enjoyable.

Holy Fever - EP: Looking forward to a full length.

H2O - Don't Forget Your Roots: Hit-or-miss collection, but any H2O is better than nothing.

Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down: No doubt who is singing, but with a band that or cohesive and does not feel tacked on.

First Blood - Demo: Virtually indistinguishable from a dozen other heavy, throat-screaming bands.

The Falcon - Unicornography: Sometimes enjoyable, but ultimately grating.

The Falcon - God Don't Make No Trash: Songs custom made for singing along.

Elbow - Builds A Rocket Boys: Grab your good headphones, turn up the volume and just drift away.

Drake - Take Care: Frustrating and uneven.

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

Moneyball was really good

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambitions - Stranger: A fun, light hardcore album.

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

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