Robert Plant - Band of Joy (2010): Led Zeppelin singer embraces his blues past for an amazing album 4.5/5
Shihad - Ignite (2010): The Kiwis have softened now, sounding more like Triple M radio filler than their anthemic hard-rock 2.5/5
You Am I - ST (2010): The more mellow Tim Rogers showed up on this album, which has more crooning than rocking. 3/5
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009): Like the Wolf Parade album, I don't like the singer, he still has his damn wavering vocals! 2.5/5
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010): Moody, dark and at times noisy. It's exactly what you want after 13 years without Swans. 4/5
The Swarm - Old Blue Eyes is Dead (1999): Early hardcore/power violence featuring guys who ended up in Cursed and Fucked Up. Great! 4/5
Tanlines - Z (2010): Dreamy dance-punk/electronica. There's no vocals, perfect study music. 3/5
Titan - Colossus (2010): An almost metal take on hardcore, with lots of long songs. Bloody brilliant 4/5
Meth, Ghost & Rae - Wu-Massacre (2010): It's like half of the Wu are back! best Wu-related release in years. 4.5/5
Trapt - No Apologies (2010): These guys sound the same as they did when I was in high school 10 years ago, maybe a bit softer. 2/5
Vestiges - The Descent Of Man (2010): Deep, doom-laden hardcore. Depresses me a little with their long, long songs. 2/5
The Wives - PvII (2010): I can find absolutely no information on this band. But they are great, moody indie. 3.4/5
You Me & Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out (2010): fun pop-punk, with a voice that ins't as whiny as the genre standard. 2.5/5
Young Widows - Old Wounds (2008): Noisy, noisy, noisy (did I mention noisy yet?) garage rock. 4/5
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (2010): Ghostface's best post-Wu album yet, in my uneducated hip-hop opinion 4.5/5
The Damned Things - Ironiclast (2010): Metal/hardcore/pop-punk guys form southern metal supergroup of goodness. 4/5
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2010): emo math-rock, which is now starting to sound very cliche: 2.5/5
Headaches - ST (2010): Local hardcore/punk band's first release, good, I think the vocals need reworking. 2.5/5Shihad - Ignite (2010): The Kiwis have softened now, sounding more like Triple M radio filler than their anthemic hard-rock 2.5/5
You Am I - ST (2010): The more mellow Tim Rogers showed up on this album, which has more crooning than rocking. 3/5
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009): Like the Wolf Parade album, I don't like the singer, he still has his damn wavering vocals! 2.5/5
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010): Moody, dark and at times noisy. It's exactly what you want after 13 years without Swans. 4/5
The Swarm - Old Blue Eyes is Dead (1999): Early hardcore/power violence featuring guys who ended up in Cursed and Fucked Up. Great! 4/5
Tanlines - Z (2010): Dreamy dance-punk/electronica. There's no vocals, perfect study music. 3/5
Titan - Colossus (2010): An almost metal take on hardcore, with lots of long songs. Bloody brilliant 4/5
Meth, Ghost & Rae - Wu-Massacre (2010): It's like half of the Wu are back! best Wu-related release in years. 4.5/5
Trapt - No Apologies (2010): These guys sound the same as they did when I was in high school 10 years ago, maybe a bit softer. 2/5
Vestiges - The Descent Of Man (2010): Deep, doom-laden hardcore. Depresses me a little with their long, long songs. 2/5
The Wives - PvII (2010): I can find absolutely no information on this band. But they are great, moody indie. 3.4/5
You Me & Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out (2010): fun pop-punk, with a voice that ins't as whiny as the genre standard. 2.5/5
Young Widows - Old Wounds (2008): Noisy, noisy, noisy (did I mention noisy yet?) garage rock. 4/5
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (2010): Ghostface's best post-Wu album yet, in my uneducated hip-hop opinion 4.5/5
The Damned Things - Ironiclast (2010): Metal/hardcore/pop-punk guys form southern metal supergroup of goodness. 4/5
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2010): emo math-rock, which is now starting to sound very cliche: 2.5/5
The Decemberists - The Kings is Dead (2011): They drop the epic stories and songs and successfully go back to folk. 4/5
Cee-Lo - The Lady Killer (2010): Apart from his catchy and lewd hit, this is a good album of almost old-school style RnB ballads 3.5/5
Los Capitanes - Rest for the Wicked (2010): an album that straddles ska, punk, hardcore, dub.. Not sure what it wants to do really 3/5
(hed) P.E. - Truth Rising (2010): 1999 Chuck would've loved this mix of alternative metal/hip hop. 2010 Chuck, not so much. 2/5
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