Alternative Rock Album reviews - Page 10

GenresAlternative Rock

Nevermind

Nirvana

Nirvana - Nevermind 9.4

Album review

Alternative Rock
Grunge
Rock
Nevermind comes with a lot of history attached. It changed rock, changed the charts, changed what people wore. Fine. Put all that…

Out of Exile

Audioslave

Audioslave - Out of Exile 8.0

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Audioslave sound less like a meeting between famous previous bands on Out of Exile. The parts fit together more naturally…

Clumsy

Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace - Clumsy 8.6

Album review

Alternative Rock
Post-Grunge
Rock
There is a useful contradiction in Clumsy: the songs are easier to follow than Raine Maida's voice is to predict. Our Lady Peace…

Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional

The Dear Hunter

The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional 8.8

Album review

Alternative Rock
Indie
Progressive rock/metal
Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional gives The Dear Hunter's theatrical rock a darker setting without reducing its melodic…

Sweet Oblivion

Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion 8.9

Album review

Alternative Rock
Grunge
Rock
Mark Lanegan's voice is the first good reason to spend time with Sweet Oblivion. Rough, low and slightly worn, it gives even the…

Fantastic Planet

Failure

Failure - Fantastic Planet 9.2

Album review

Alternative Rock
Indie
Rock
Fantastic Planet makes its connections count. The short instrumental links, the recurring sounds and the way a song's atmosphere…

Make Yourself

Incubus

Incubus - Make Yourself 8.9

Album review

Alternative Metal
Alternative Rock
Metal
Rock
Drive gives a slightly misleading first impression of Make Yourself. It is a good song, with an acoustic guitar part and a strong…

New Surrender

Anberlin

Anberlin - New Surrender 8.1

Album review

Alternative Rock
Emo
Rock
New Surrender is a confident album with several different ideas about what confidence should sound like. Anberlin can open with an…

Mental Jewelry

Live

Live - Mental Jewelry 7.8

Album review

Alternative Rock
Rock
The bass tells you quite a lot about Mental Jewelry before Ed Kowalczyk has finished the first verse. Live's debut has a spring in…

Chameleon

Trauma Ray

Trauma Ray - Chameleon 7.8

Album review

Alternative Rock
Shoegaze
Chameleon works through the pressure of layered guitars. Trauma Ray build their debut album around a heavy shoegaze sound, with…

The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath 7.8

Album review

Alternative Rock
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
The Bedlam in Goliath starts at full force and rarely lets up. The Mars Volta’s fourth studio album brings its ideas into shorter…

The Room's Too Cold

The Early November

The Early November - The Room's Too Cold 7.8

Album review

Alternative Rock
Emo
Pop Punk
The Room's Too Cold gives The Early November a wider musical range than a simple sequence of loud guitar songs. Acoustic parts…

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