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Sep 15
Kid Cudi
Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
72
critic score
(16)
83
user score
(4,862)
Jan 6
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
92
critic score
(37)
85
user score
(3,612)
Dec 25
Tyler, The Creator
Bastard
72
critic score
(2)
65
user score
(2,865)
Aug 25
Arctic Monkeys
Humbug
77
critic score
(40)
77
user score
(2,706)
Nov 18
Lady Gaga
The Fame Monster
73
critic score
(16)
83
user score
(2,655)
Sep 29
Paramore
Brand New Eyes
74
critic score
(16)
82
user score
(2,373)
May 15
Eminem
Relapse
60
critic score
(26)
64
user score
(2,313)
Mar 24
DOOM
Born Like This
73
critic score
(18)
80
user score
(2,195)
Aug 17
The xx
xx
84
critic score
(28)
78
user score
(1,854)
Dec 29
twenty | one | pilots
twenty | one | pilots
90
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(1,707)
Jun 30
Sweet Trip
You Will Never Know Why
80
critic score
(3)
86
user score
(1,601)
Sep 15
Muse
The Resistance
68
critic score
(24)
68
user score
(1,437)
Jul 6
Florence + The Machine
Lungs
79
critic score
(33)
81
user score
(1,409)
Nov 3
Weezer
Raditude
50
critic score
(25)
30
user score
(1,403)
Jan 21
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
ワールドイズユアーズ [World Is Yours]
80
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(1,362)
Jun 9
Radiohead
In Rainbows Disk 2
66
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(1,291)
Mar 3
The Antlers
Hospice
82
critic score
(27)
80
user score
(1,287)
Feb 13
Drake
So Far Gone
68
critic score
(6)
59
user score
(1,238)
May 15
Green Day
21st Century Breakdown
67
critic score
(27)
65
user score
(1,232)
May 26
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
81
critic score
(30)
81
user score
(1,224)
May 5
St. Vincent
Actor
80
critic score
(30)
83
user score
(1,110)
May 26
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
86
critic score
(38)
83
user score
(1,036)
Nov 20
Rihanna
Rated R
69
critic score
(20)
71
user score
(990)
Sep 8
JAY-Z
The Blueprint 3
68
critic score
(28)
65
user score
(917)
Jan 12
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
82
critic score
(26)
83
user score
(787)
Jun 9
The Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D.
55
critic score
(13)
48
user score
(734)
Mar 31
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!
80
critic score
(35)
80
user score
(688)
Mar 24
Mastodon
Crack The Skye
81
critic score
(25)
86
user score
(653)
Jan 20
Bon Iver
Blood Bank EP
74
critic score
(16)
79
user score
(636)
Jun 9
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
86
critic score
(38)
81
user score
(618)
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Aug 1
The Brave Little Abacus
Masked Dancers: concern in so many things you forget where you are
96
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(574)
Dec 22
Lil B
6 Kiss
80
user score
(551)
Sep 22
Brand New
Daisy
75
critic score
(13)
80
user score
(501)
Dec 15
Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind
81
critic score
(24)
83
user score
(500)
Feb 10
Lily Allen
It's Not Me, It's You
70
critic score
(35)
80
user score
(463)
Oct 13
The Flaming Lips
Embryonic
76
critic score
(33)
81
user score
(454)
Oct 20
Converge
Axe To Fall
81
critic score
(13)
85
user score
(453)
Nov 17
Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures
75
critic score
(28)
78
user score
(446)
Jun 9
Mos Def
The Ecstatic
78
critic score
(30)
82
user score
(428)
May 26
Sunn O)))
Monoliths and Dimensions
85
critic score
(17)
81
user score
(402)
Aug 18
Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem
84
critic score
(11)
81
user score
(383)
Oct 2
Mumford & Sons
Sigh No More
72
critic score
(19)
67
user score
(362)
Jul 28
Owl City
Ocean Eyes
49
critic score
(16)
55
user score
(351)
Feb 3
A Day To Remember
Homesick
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(344)
Sep 22
Girls
Album
80
critic score
(25)
81
user score
(344)
Jan 27
Franz Ferdinand
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
69
critic score
(35)
74
user score
(343)
Oct 26
Lady Gaga
Bad Romance
60
critic score
(2)
91
user score
(342)
Sep 28
Mariah Carey
Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
64
critic score
(14)
68
user score
(335)
Dec 9
toe
For Long Tomorrow
83
user score
(331)
Jun 6
Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum
Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
84
user score
(314)
Jul 21
Demi Lovato
Here We Go Again
62
critic score
(5)
65
user score
(314)
Sep 29
Alice in Chains
Black Gives Way to Blue
69
critic score
(14)
71
user score
(309)
May 19
Passion Pit
Manners
76
critic score
(29)
78
user score
(307)
Apr 7
Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
79
critic score
(34)
80
user score
(283)
Jan 27
Natural Snow Buildings
Daughter of Darkness
86
user score
(282)
Dec 8
Thirty Seconds to Mars
This is War
55
critic score
(14)
57
user score
(282)
Oct 16
Rammstein
Liebe ist für alle da
70
critic score
(6)
74
user score
(279)
Feb 3
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
75
critic score
(24)
78
user score
(278)
Jul 9
Fatty Spins
Doin' Your Mom
69
user score
(276)
Oct 13
Neon Indian
Psychic Chasms
78
critic score
(23)
78
user score
(276)
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