ARTIST- TITLE | DESCRIPTION | VOTE | |
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible | Indie Rock from Canada following Springsteen and Bowie | 80 | |
Editors - An End Has Start | From "the pop side of Interpol" to the "new U2" | 80 | |
Radiohead - In Rainbows | Not their best, two or three songs are forgettabile but is a high-level album,as usual. | 78 | |
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future | Labelled "New Rave", instead is a good mix of Dance-Punk,Indie Rock and Pop. | 77 | |
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero | Industrial Rock is dead, Trent play with samples, hard electronic and melody | 76 | |
Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim | Great "compilation" project for the icelandic band with three new beautiful songs. | 76 | |
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare | Good second album for the "new band of 2006", it could be worse. | 75 | |
Parts And Labor - Mapmaker | Unique sound for this band, noise,speed drums,melody, 80 college rock all mixed. | 75 | |
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before.. | Sailing a boat in the indie-rock waters | 74 | |
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun | Atmosphere and expanded melodies in the new Ulver s album, as always beautiful. | 74 | |
Il Teatro Degli Orrori - Dell Impero Delle Tenebre | Italian alternative rock | 73 | |
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away | Pure indie Pop with a look at Beach Boys and The Smiths. | 73 | |
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works | Again a great album from the mathcore band but could be a bit "extreme" for someone. | 73 | |
Interpol - Our Love To Admire | Third difficult album, isn t their best but remains good for the indie/dark-wave band | 72 | |
The Soulsavers - It s Not How Far You Fall, It s The Way You Land | Mark Lanegan and others for a good project with Soul,Electronica and Rock vibes | 72 | |
Burial - Untrue | One of the best "electronic" album of the year, dubstep with hot soul voices. | 72 | |
Battles - Mirrored | Math-Rock, original and ossessive songs, as "Atlas" show. | 71 | |
Grinderman - s/t | Nick Cave project, ultraloud and dirty acid blues | 71 | |
Kanye West - Graduation | Maybe the greatest mainstream rapper of last years, Graduation is the confirmation | 71 | |
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime | LSD Electronic Trance | 71 | |
The Horrors - s\t | Indie kids under goth clothes play with garage rock, Bauhaus and Cramps | 71 | |
The National - Boxer | Again a great album, mix of post-punk and something more singer/songwriter | 71 | |
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City | Not good as Silent Alarm for sure but nice album from the indie rock/dance-punk kids | 70 | |
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond | A nice come-back for one of the most important bands of last two decades | 70 | |
Hellyeah - Hellyeah | Pantera+Mudvayne=Southern Groove Metal, nice try. | 70 | |
Idlewild - Make Another World | Again a nice but average album from the pop rock band from Edinburgh | 70 | |
Justice - + | After Daft Punk, again "French House" with more hard slap bass | 70 | |
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position | Good return for the English songwriter that love Pop and Electronica | 70 | |
Rishloo - Eidolon | A good mix of Dredg, Tool, System Of A Down and A Perfect Circle | 70 | |
Silversun Pickups - Caravan | Sound like an indie version of 90s Smashing Pumpkins, and this is good. | 70 | |
Uochi Toki + Eterea - La Chiave Del 20 | Italian alternative rap | 70 | |
The Warlocks - Heavy Deavy Skull Lover | A great psychedelic, ossessive but accessible trip from California | 70 | |
!!! - Myth Takes | Hyped album after the great "Louden Up Now", not so good but nice funk-disco-punk | 69 | |
Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin | After "Everything All The Time",another good album of simple Indie Rock made in USA. | 69 | |
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 | Less Folk than "Howl" this is a nice return to Garage-Psychedelic-Rock | 69 | |
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards | One of the biggest surprise of the new USA Indie Rock scene. | 69 | |
Hurt - Vol. II | Return after the good Vol.1 for the Acoustic/Post-Grunge version of Tool | 69 | |
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures | Sophomore album for the UK indie rock band, not at the level of A Certain Trigger | 69 | |
Okkervil River - The Stage Names | More "happy" sounds for the indie folk rock band | 69 | |
Satellite Party - Ultra Playloaded | Perry Farrell project with friends a mix of genres : rock,alternative,funk,psichedelia | 69 | |
The White Stripes - Icky Thump | Crazy return after the not so good "Get Behind Me Satan". | 69 | |
The Twang - Love It When I Feel Like This | Good debut album of Uk rock with some Baggy/Madchester vibes | 69 | |
The Wombats - Proudly Present A Guide To Love.. | Nice and catchy debut for one of the best Arctic Monkeys disciples | 69 | |
Subsonica - L Eclissi | They return with their best album (with Microchip Emozionale).Italian Electro-Poprock | 69 | |
El-P - I ll Sleep When You re Dead | Good alternative rap album for El-P with collaboration of some big names | 68 | |
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies | A noisy mix of metalcore and trance, original but too much ingenuous | 68 | |
Down - Down III: Over the Under | A good return for the side-project of Pantera lead singer, powerful Southern Metal. | 68 | |
Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams | The 90s rap "group" return after 6 years with a good album. | 68 | |
65 Days Of Static - The Destruction Of Small Ideas | Nice return after the good "One Time for All Time", post-rock and electronica | 67 | |
Patti Smith - Twelve | A lot of collaborations in this cover album for the poet of Rock | 67 | |
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris | After the huge RR,SFTD and the less good LTP, they return with a so-so album. | 67 | |
The Hives - The Black And White Album | Always the good Hives sound but when they will release a true masterpiece? | 67 | |
Oceansize - Frames | Good album for the new-prog rock band, full of beautiful songs. | 67 | |
Blonde Redhead - Twenty Three | Italian-NY band, nice indie rock album. | 66 | |
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | An average-nice album full of 70 ballads mixed with hard rock for the Foo Fighters. | 66 | |
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist | maybe the return of the year, it could be worse but 90 Smashing are much far. | 66 | |
Travis - The Boy With No Name | Nothing special or nothing new for the Scottish band great in late 90 and early 00. | 66 | |
Verdena - Requiem | Italian alternative Rock band continue to release good albums. | 66 | |
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky | A small delusion for the new album of the great American indie rock-folk band. | 66 | |
Cherry Ghost - 4 AM | Good debut album of adult indie-rock.A bit R.E.M., a bit Wilco. | 66 | |
Dave Gahan - Hourglass | Not a bad album of ice/hot Electro-poprock, but far from best Depeche Mode works. | 66 | |
The Killers - Sawdust | Great track with Lou Reed and a lot of average Killers s songs | 66 | |
Bruce Springsteen - Magic | A nice return to a more "rock" oriented sound but so far from his best works. | 65 | |
Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times | Third studio album for the band that mix Southern,blues and Rock, not bad. | 65 | |
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me | A return to something more serious, with slower, darker and less industrial songs. | 65 | |
The View - Hats Off to the Buskers | Nice debut for one of the many Uk indie rock/punk bands | 65 | |
Clap You Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder | Delusion for the indie-rock band. It isn t so bad but the last one was so better. | 65 | |
iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies to Lessons Learnt | Nice but a bit boring album from the dark/post-rock band. | 65 | |
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold | City Of Evil was very good. This time return with a too much radio-friendly album. | 65 | |
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today | Not good as 2000 s Dopethrone for the Doom Metal band influenced by Black Sabbath. | 65 | |
Air - Pocket Symphony | Moon Safari was a masterpiece, the last release isn t nothing special. | 64 | |
Alter Bridge - Blackbird | Nice new album for the semi-Creed band, always on their standards. | 64 | |
Art Brut - It s a Bit Complicated | The debut of this ironic Indie/Post-punk band was really nice, this one a bit less | 64 | |
Babyshambles - Shotter s Nation | As the debut is nice but nothing really memorable.Pete did his better with Libertines. | 64 | |
Ben Harper - Lifeline | Ben continue to release good albums but he lose his 90 groove. | 64 | |
Giardini di Mirņ - Dividing Opinions | Italian indie-post rock band, nice album with beautiful atmospheres | 64 | |
The Good, The Bad And The Queen - s/t | an other project of Damon Albarn, a bit boring. | 64 | |
The New Pornographers - Challengers | Not good as Twin Cinema but always a good mix of indie rock and pop melodies | 64 | |
Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead | Not a lot of new ideas from S.O.A.D. singer but the same great voice. | 64 | |
Turin Brakes - Dark On Fire | Again an almost perfect pop rock album, but again nothing really new. | 64 | |
Ash - Twilight of the Innocents | Passable new album for the power-pop Uk band successful in late 90 and early 00 | 63 | |
Bad Brains - Built A Nation | Return for the seminal crossover/hardcore punk/jamaican 80 band. | 63 | |
Liars - Liars | Their "pop" album isn t so pop and isn t so good, better their early works. | 63 | |
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers | The return of one of the greatest brit rockers of 90, nothing so new or beautiful. | 63 | |
Velvet Revolver - Libertad | Second album for the mix of GNR and SP, continue to their hard rock. | 63 | |
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light | Again a nice album for the emo / alternative rock band. | 63 | |
Garbage - Absolute Garbage | The greatest hits, new song is really ugly but they did something good in 90. | 62 | |
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver | Delusion for the dance-punk genius, nothing good as debut album. | 62 | |
Madina Lake - From Them, Through Us, To You | Mediocre punk-pop album with nothing memorable | 62 | |
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! | Heroes of the post-britpop era (lare 90) return with a mediocre album. | 62 | |
Stereophonics - Pull the Pin | A bit more "Rock" than other works, but nothing new. They was good in late 90. | 62 | |
Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything& | "Fire" was a big surprise.This continue with ironic disco-rock but with less conviction. | 61 | |
Hard-Fi - Once Upon a Time in the West | Again the catchy mix of Clash and pop sounds, but when something new or different? | 61 | |
Kaiser Chiefs - Your Truly, Anbry Mob | After a fresh and young debut an album with only some nice melodies, nothing more | 61 | |
Korn - Untitled | A small change of style but they will never return the great and influent band of 90. | 61 | |
Scorpions - Humanity - Hour 1 | Again a Scorpions album, they continue to play well but always the same music. | 61 | |
Blaqk Audio - CexCells | Side Project of A.F.I. singer that play with 80 electro-pop. | 60 | |
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga | Isn t good as last albums, small delusion. | 60 | |
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone | "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" was a great album, this one is just mediocre. | 60 | |
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet | They did some great albums in their career but this one isn t for sure their best. | 60 | |
The Ataris - Welcome the Night | More "rock" oriented than usual for the punk-pop band. | 60 | |
The Used - Lies For The Liars | One of earliest bands of the new wave of Emo-core/pop with a so-so album. | 60 | |
VHS Or Beta - Bring on the Comets | Nice Dance-Punk with some House vibes, but all really anonymous. | 60 | |
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, Volume Two | They are good players but have one big problem : the hateful voice! Not so bad at all. | 60 | |
Reverend and The Makers - State of Things | Fresh pop/dance/rock/funk album, but all sounds too much little serious | 60 | |
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! | The new album of the most famous Gypsy punk band, nothing special | 59 | |
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight | The band of Jenny Lewis with an innocuous indie pop rock album. | 59 | |
Tomahawk - Anonymous | Pretentious opera for the genius Mike Patton, but this time is really useless. | 59 | |
Puscifer - V Is For Vagina | The worst Maynard project, a bit of electronica/slow industrial, wait new Tool/APC | 59 | |
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This | In Case We Die was good, this one is nothing special mix of avant-folk-pop | 58 | |
Funeral For A Friend - Tales Don t Tell Themselves | A lot more pop-rock oriented than last works for the post-hardcore band. | 58 | |
Paramore - RIOT! | Punk-Pop with girl at voice?not excatly the best rock band around. | 58 | |
Static-X - Cannibal | One of the biggest band of nu metal/industrial return with a useless album. | 58 | |
She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever | The debut was quite good, this new don t add nothing to their dark-synth-rock sound. | 58 | |
Bjork - Volta | in 90 she was really good, now this album is nothing special. | 57 | |
Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival | Changed their pop-punk in a electropop-punk, a bit better than last but always bad. | 57 | |
Lifehouse - Who We Are | If you like pure Rock/Pop FM you will like it, otherwise this album is useless | 57 | |
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play | With the new singer is all more catchy and pop.Good for under 18. | 57 | |
The Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night | They have lost almost all of their power,groove and energy. | 57 | |
Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire | The debut was quite decent this one repeat the same things with less idea. | 57 | |
Puddle Of Mudd - Famous | Come Clean was good, but this one sounds all "already listened". | 56 | |
Saliva - Blood Stained Love Story | Always the same useless mix of nu metal and post-grunge. | 56 | |
Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor | More variety of sounds but again a bad album, for the ex-metalcore band. | 56 | |
The Last Goodnight - Poison Kiss | An album of innocuous Pop/Rock for charts.Some catchy melodies and nothing more. | 56 | |
Atreyu - The Best of& | One of the biggest new-metalcore band, is a mix of their worst songs. | 55 | |
Bon Jovi - Lost Highway | 80 Bon Jovi were good but now always the same things, this time with more Country. | 55 | |
Korn - MTV Unplugged | Useless live unplugged for a band that always loved play "plugged" | 55 | |
The Almost - Southern Weather | Singer from the screamo/metalcore band Underoath turn in punk-pop. | 55 | |
The Stooges - Weirdness | The return of one of the most important bands of all-time with an useless album. | 55 | |
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion | the 2007 pop surprise,Bee-Gees meets freddy Mercury, some catcy songs, no more. | 54 | |
Sum 41 - Underclass Hero | Return with a more heavy album but always on their innocuous pop-punk style. | 54 | |
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight | Less heavy, less energy for the Nu Metal / Pop bestseller band | 53 | |
Rooney - Calling the World | Sound like a young band that want to make pop-rock only for charts. | 53 | |
The Academy Is& - Santi | Useless and anonymous punk-pop | 52 | |
Unwritten Law - The Hit List | The greatest hits of a nothing special band that mix post-grunge and pop-punk. | 52 | |
Chris Cornell - Carry On | Awful second album for the ex-great singer of Soundgarden (and Audioslave) | 50 | |
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High | Awful album, awful punk-pop band.Only for pop listeners or Emo-kids. | 49 | |
Donnas - Bitchin | Simple one of the worst album of the year : plastic-girl-pop-metal | 47 | |