Their favorites

1. MetallicaLulu 100 Drowned in Sound
2. ANOHNI and the JohnsonsI Am a Bird Now 100 Drowned in Sound
3. Alien Ant FarmANThology 100 Drowned in Sound
4. DeftonesKoi No Yokan 90 Drowned in Sound
5. FoalsAntidotes 90 Drowned in Sound

Artists they keep coming back to

Their scores for each artist, in release order.

• Pulp 3 reviews60Freaks70Separations80His ‘n’ He…

Every review

Album	Outlet	Their score	Breakdown	Published
TurnstileTime & Space“An impressive genre album”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	74	2018
Marilyn MansonHeaven Upside Down“It’s business as usual, but after a decade of disappointment, it’s good to know business is doing wel”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	71	2017
Brand NewScience Fiction“A record that values thinking over feeling and challenges its listener to do the same”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	82	2017
Roger WatersIs This the Life We Really Want?“A raw, jagged-to-the-bone stream of ideas, spat with such ferocity that you forget he’s now in his seventies”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	77	2017
Bob DylanTriplicate“While Dylan fans surely miss his original tunes, this honest, affecting tribute to a bygone era of music is a treat in itself”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	80	2017
DJ SnakeEncore	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	65	2016
Animal CollectivePainting With	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	50 5/10	70	2016
Ed SheeranX“x offers a few lively embers, but never quite ignites.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	73	2014
MØNo Mythologies to Follow“No Mythologies to Follow is perhaps better taken as a really strong collection of singles (or potential singles) than a complete body of work, but…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	75	2014
Major LazerFree the Universe	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	68	2013
SoundgardenKing Animal“There’s something reassuringly uncompromising about this comeback effort, something almost primal in its stubborn cling to a sound resolutely out o…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	70	2012
DeftonesKoi No Yokan“Koi No Yokan is Deftones coming to terms with their own strengths, taking everything that’s gone before, then refining and polishing it to an impos…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	90 9/10	84	2012
Steve HarrisBritish Lion“This is a piece of work suited purely for curious die-hards. But fuck it, you can always go and listen to Powerslave.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	30 3/10	57	2012
Sigur RósValtari“Valtari might not be a huge digression for the band but that doesn’t matter: this is quietly, entrancingly and thoroughly sublime.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	76	2012
PulpFreaks“There’s not a great deal here you could consider a landing light on the runway towards ‘Babies’, Different Class, ‘Common People’ or Glastonbury ’95.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	53	2012
PulpSeparations“Separations isn’t essential listening in the way the rest of Pulp’s work from the Nineties is, but its growing pains don’t relegate it to the realm…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	64	2012
MetallicaLulu“Lulu is the second greatest record ever made in the history of the human ear drum. Number One: Metal Machine Music.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	100 10/10	48	2011
Nicola RobertsCinderella’s Eyes“Is Nicola Roberts good in her own right, or just better than her peers? Fortunately, on the evidence of this, there’s every chance she’s both.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	74	2011
BlondiePanic of Girls“In a perverse way, Panic Of Girls is a definite return to form for Blondie after an eight year recording hiatus. The kind of form that has seen the…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	56	2011
MogwaiHardcore Will Never Die, But You Will“Of late, a new Mogwai record has been greeted in a manner not unlike the arrival of a new jumper at Christmas: an initially underwhelming offering…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	75	2011
InterpolInterpol“As the final echoes of the trumpet fanfare that closes 'The Undoing' subsides, Paul Banks final resolution of _Interpol_ declares it to be _"The pl…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	64	2010
KlaxonsSurfing the Void	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	72	2010
Scissor SistersNight Work“Nightlife is a pastiche of Scissors Sisters’ former glories that sees the band desperately sewing together the leftover scraps of their idols in a…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	65	2010
The Chemical BrothersFurther“Further is at times a thrilling listen and barely puts a foot wrong, yet at a time when electronic music is expanding so quickly, it doesn’t shine…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	70	2010
KraftwerkRadio-Activity“_Kraftwerkweek_ continues with Kraftwerk's fifth LP, which saw them shed their last remaining rock vestiges and bid a long farewell to their avant-…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	86	2009
AFICrash Love“Crash Love is a collection of sounds that falls somewhere between P.O.D. and a fart that's been trapped in a turbo-fx pedal for ten years.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	30 3/10	67	2009
Father John MistyYear in the Kingdom“The sort of down-at-heel folk baladeering which Tillman specialises in is a popular market to say the least, teeming with over-earnest chancers try…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	66	2009
The LemonheadsVarshons	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	67	2009
KasabianWest Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum“As the year of re-evaluation and ultimately re-invention, 2009 has left perennial ladrockers **Kasabian** in something of a quandary…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	50 5/10	60	2009
Iggy PopPréliminaires“Peanut butter-covered proto-punk, actor, drug-addled mental patient, rock’n’roll survivor, insurance salesman: **Iggy Pop** has been a lot of thing…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	62	2009
Franz FerdinandTonight: Franz Ferdinand“In the main, _Tonight_ is evidence that after finally settling down with producer Dan Carey, **Franz Ferdinand** have gotten in touch with their or…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	70	2009
White LiesTo Lose My Life…“Dom Gourlay says: it's easy to be critical where a band like **White Lies** are concerned, and even after several listens of an album that is as po…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	70 7/10	60	2009
RazorlightSlipway Fires“Okay then, hands up, who thinks Johnny Borrell is a prick? Wow… that's a lot of hands. Well, in that case you should totally che”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	46	2008
Scarlett JohanssonAnywhere I Lay My Head“For all its accomplishments Anywhere I Lay My Head is too safe, too respectable a record to do justice to an artist who remains forever mid-topple…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	59	2008
Fleet FoxesSun Giant	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	85	2008
FoalsAntidotes“You have to rewind the best part of a year to find the root of the anticipation that’s bloated about the five individuals that comprise Oxford’s Fo…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	90 9/10	69	2008
BauhausGo Away White	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	65	2008
Beach HouseBeach House“Beach House’s debut is not an album for our time; it is one that yearns for a simpler life, for an existence always tinted rose and viewed through…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	72	2007
Kate NashMade of Bricks“She put her tracks up on MySpace, full of hope. She got lucky: Lily Allen top-8’ed her and the girl got some music biz buzz. She then graced the pa…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	68	2007
Lady SovereignPublic Warning“Louise Harman – for that is the name sewn into Sov’s P.E. shorts – demonstrates throughout this 13-track collection that she’s a totally capable MC…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	72	2007
PulpHis ‘n’ Hers“Ten years on from when Pulp were a pop behemoth, Island has released three discs from the band's back catalogue in deluxe format. His 'N Hers is th…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	76	2006
Arctic MonkeysWho the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?“Let's get something straight. First and foremost, 'The View from the Afternoon' is quite easily, one of the finest singles of the year.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	56	2006
SilversteinDiscovering the Waterfront“Silverstein have returned with the follow up to their rather successful something-core debut, When Broken Is Easily Fixed. Unfortunately their soph…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	20 2/10	53	2005
ANOHNI and the JohnsonsI Am a Bird Now“Antony And The Johnsons are led by New Yorker Antony – actor (he played an androgynous convict in Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory), artist, but abov…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	100 10/10	86	2005
Taking Back SundayWhere You Want to Be	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	61	2004
Sufjan StevensSeven Swans“Seven Swans' is a folk record that marches to the drum of an inner devotion. The result: one of the most beautiful releases of 2004.”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	80 8/10	77	2004
Puddle of MuddCome Clean“Puddle of Mudd have a mass of work to do if they’re to follow in the footsteps of fellow Durst endorsed rockers, Staind. If musical quality is anyt…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	60 6/10	57	2001
StaindBreak the Cycle“Unless you’ve been living on the moon as of late, you will have heard of Staind. Fred Durst’s big guns that have taken America by storm and on list…”	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	40 4/10	52	2001
Alien Ant FarmANThology	Drowned in Sound via Wikipedia	100 10/10	78	2001