Album Recommendations: Albums Rated 8/10

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Autolux

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2016	Pussy's Dead	Cinematic technological disturbance.	8

Ball Park Music

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2012	Museum	Indie rock to write a cynical webcomic about modern life and monsters to—hey wait.	8

Beck

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2008	Modern Guilt	Dry, clipped paranoia.	8
2005	Guero	"Sun-eyed", "cyanide", it all works out the same in Beck's world.	8
1994	Mellow Gold	Finding humor in the vagrant lifestyle.	8

C418

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2011	Minecraft - Volume Alpha	I wrote this waiting for cobblestone to smelt.	8

Cold War Kids

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2006	Robbers & Cowards	Thieves need damn solid bass grooves too.	8

David Garza

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1998	This Euphoria	Skronk and sensitivity and snakes in equal measure.	8

Earlimart

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2004	Treble and Tremble	Turns out, the end was just the beginning for them.	8

Failure

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1992	Comfort	A thrash about an unfinished basement.	8

Faith No More

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1992	Angel Dust	Alt metal? Art metal.	8

Graffiti Mechanism

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2014	In Vitro	Low-bit techno that excels despite a lack of cohesion.	8

Hum

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1993	Electra2000	Pummel pommel pumble. Yehhhhhh.	8

Incubus

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1999	Make Yourself	Mental piracy.	8

Irving

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2006	Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers	In my room, in the afternoon, until the garden blooms. Or suchlike.	8

Josh Joplin

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2001	Useful Music	50 fans can't be wrong, or can they?	8

Local H

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1996	As Good as Dead	A fuckin' ugly highlight reel of 90s angst. I'm in love.	8

Lush

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1990	Gala	IT'S SO FUCKING SHINY.	8

Maroon 5

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1997	The Fourth World	Before they became animals-mals.	8

Matchbox Twenty

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1995	Yourself or Someone Like You	They don't make 'em like this anymore—up to you what that means.	8

My Bloody Valentine

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1988	Isn't Anything	Whoa, the walls are melting! Groovy.	8

Nirvana

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1992	Incesticide	A little something for everyone, even the freaks.	8

Remy Zero

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1996	Remy Zero	Patiently hearing out the voices in your head.	8

Silversun Pickups

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2012	Neck of the Woods	Eerie, warped, and endless.	8

Starflyer 59

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1999	Everybody Makes Mistakes	Singable cynicism.	8
1998	The Fashion Focus	Cars whizzing past in the nighttime.	8

Stella Luna

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2002	Stargazer	The mystique matches the music for once.	8

The Breeders

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1995	Pacer	Rock in rehab.	8

The Cardigans

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1998	Gran Turismo	Sonically repressed.	8

The Folk Implosion

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1994	Take a Look Inside...	Fuckingaroundcore.	8

Vampire Weekend

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2010	Contra	Her face will be yours as you listen.	8

We Are Scientists

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2005	With Love and Squalor	Restless, infectious, bite-sized dance-punk.	8

Wilco

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
1999	Summerteeth	How to sound alright when you very much aren't.	8

Wrong Way Driver

Year	Album Name	Summary	Score
2011	Nonplussed	Baby marten.	8

Album Recommendations: Albums Rated 8/10

Autolux

Ball Park Music

Beck

C418

Cold War Kids

David Garza

Earlimart

Failure

Faith No More

Graffiti Mechanism

Hum

Incubus

Irving

Josh Joplin

Local H

Lush

Maroon 5

Matchbox Twenty

My Bloody Valentine

Nirvana

Remy Zero

Silversun Pickups

Starflyer 59

Stella Luna

The Breeders

The Cardigans

The Folk Implosion

Vampire Weekend

We Are Scientists

Wilco

Wrong Way Driver

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