Periphery (2010)

Periphery's eponymous debut album. All-American djent.

Crashing down
Through their eyes.

Animals as Leaders (2009)

Truly an instrumental masterpiece, featuring some of the most amazing guitar work I've heard in a long time.

"Choosing a band name is like naming your child – it’s really hard. You can’t decide on anything and it’s super permanent and it molds the way people perceive your band. I was at the point where I was just like: ‘I’m going to call it something.’ I was reading this book called My Ishmael, which is the second book in a series by Daniel Quinn – it’s an anthropological cultural critique, and there are some concepts in there about the way we live on the planet versus the way primitive humans used to inhabit the earth. The name is loosely connotative of a lot of the ideas that are floating around in my head, but it’s not meant to be anything you’re supposed to pay too much attention to."

Houkago Tea Time II (2010)

Kyoto Animation really doesn't mess around with the music end of their shows. This double album coincides with the second season of the anime, with the first disk being the "studio" versions and the second disk being the "cassette" versions. Merii kurisumasu~

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LCD Soundsystem (2005)

The best thing to come out of the past years.

Daft Punk is playing at my house. (My house!)

Flight of the Conchords (2008)

The debut comedy album from the New Zealand duo.

Standing in the sitting room.

Vampire Weekend (2008)

A first album with a cover that isn't very contentious.

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?

UUVVWWZ (2009)

A band with a really stupid name featuring a girl with a color for a name on vocals.

My dad thinks he's math.

System of a Down (1998)

A debut album heavy in political lyrical content.

I play Russian Roulette everyday, a man's sport.

Rage Against the Machine (1992)

The debut self-titled album by the very political band. This album is held in high regard on its high production value, often used by some audiophiles to test speakers.

Fuck Manifest Destiny.

Bang Camaro (2007)

Arena style rock with a lot of singers. (See here for more information.)

Rebellion starts tonight.

Do Make Say Think (1999)

Simple post rock by a band with a motivational poster for a name.

"There's that same post-rock feeling of stretched-out unhurried songs that remind me of one another in a very good way."

The Cars (1978)

Awesome new wave record, this is a reissue from 1999 with fourteen bonus tracks, mostly demo versions of the original album.

It's so easy to play up your breakdown.

Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)

Two people with two guitars.

There's still time to change the road you're on.

Arcade Fire (2003)

The first release and only EP of the Grammy winning Canadian indie band.

Tell me how this story ends and I'll keep them fires burning.

Them Crooked Vultures (2009)

Them Crooked Vulture's self-titled release, an excellent album and with Josh Homme taking lead vocals and guitar, this plays out much like a Queens of the Stone Age album. Not that that's a bad thing, of course. Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on drums, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin on bass.

No one can make me cry.

Boston (1976)

A debut album that needs no introduction.

People livin' in competition.

Fang Island (2010)

Joyfulness in the form of math rock.

Like the trees they are.