The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

8.9

otherworldly, Dylanesque, downcast, Springsteenesque, transience

Standouts:

"Red Eyes"

"Burning"

"Eyes to the Wind"

Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea

10

Anne Frank, surreal, beauty vs. the grim, spiritual, brass

Standouts:

"Two-Headed Boy"

"In An Aeroplane Over the Sea"

"Ghost"

She & Him - Volume Two

9.8

sweet, sunny, addictive love, separation anxiety, forgetting

Standouts:

"Thieves"

"Home"

"Over It Over Again"

Nirvana - In Utero

9.3

self-disgust, close to death, disillusion, illness, birth

Standouts:

"Heart-Shaped Box"

"Dumb"

"tourette's"

Green Day - Dookie

9.7

boredom, stagnation, psychosis, vicarious, loneliness

Standouts:

"Longview"

"Sassafras Roots"

"She"