Might as well get this started early.
Discuss albums released in 2012.
So far I've been loving Lamb of God - Resolution.
Great album.
check out The Korea - Chariots from the Gods. between that and LoG, this year is off to a good start for metal.
NOW THIS IS EARLY, isn't it?
Hey man we're already, like, 7% into this year, man. Time's flyin'.
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Finally got around to listening to this, and it's totally sheep tits.
Crippled Black Phoenix - The Heart Of Every Country (album version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiR_MT6toQ#)
Well. the best ones of this year so far is Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour, Anthony Green - Beautiful Things and the new Crosses EP!
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Crosses ††
just gave the new Lamb of God a listen and I enjoyed it.
Crippled Black Phoenix is a good album :)
Been listening to this:
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
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Porcelain Raft - Put Me To Sleep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzd2CDKJ5fQ#)
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jan 26, 2012, 05:10 AM
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Finally got around to listening to this, and it's totally sheep tits.
Crippled Black Phoenix - The Heart Of Every Country (album version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiR_MT6toQ#)
That is so facken good...i really liked it, thanks for sharing
Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
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Errors - Pleasure Palaces (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mb63ATA_qY#ws)
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https://rs421l34.rapidshare.com/# (https://rs421l34.rapidshare.com/#)!download|421dt|186808791|Mark_Lanegan_Band--Blues_Funeral-WEB-2012-OMA.zip
So fucking good!
link doesn't seem to be working.
Copy/paste the whole thing and it should work.
my bad. Sounding hella good so far buddy.
Theis, love your sig man. Thats my favorite band on the planet right now!
Yppah - D. song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVo8Y9OmH_w#)
Sentry The Defiant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmsua-OLY_8#ws)
already guaranteed to be on my list.
digging that Yppah!
so far i'm 100% sure that the Burial EP is going to rate high on my list; probably the best electronic music i've heard since Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma
Quote from: svjchtr on Feb 16, 2012, 01:32 AM
digging that Yppah!
so far i'm 100% sure that the Burial EP is going to rate high on my list; probably the best electronic music i've heard since Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma
yup new Burial EP is really good. Im sure it will be somewhere at the top of my list!
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE ITS NOT EVEN FUCKING MARCH YET!!!
Motorpsycho - Through The Veil part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqAi8upBco#)
If you're not into the intro the rocking starts at about 1:50.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fb0fm2 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/fb0fm2)
my favorite so far this year.
Quote from: theis on Feb 05, 2012, 04:24 PM
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So fucking good!
I was really disappointed with this, especially after the brilliance of Bubblegum.
I agree with you on Lamb of God though.
I really had never heard them before, listened to the first track and decided they kick ass!
Loving the new Meshuggah too - hope Stef is inspired!
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis is my favorite release, so far.
I'm sure the new Baroness and Gojira will be at the top of my list too.
If you want a good album for summer check out Best Coast - The Only Place
Other good albums in the last few months for me have been:
Santigold
Torche
Kimbra
Death Grips
BADBADNOTGOOD
Every Time I Die
Sleigh Bells
Quote from: bright lights, big city on May 21, 2012, 07:04 PM
BADBADNOTGOOD
These guys are so groovy, but they should short their releases down. So much filler methinks.
Alt-J - A Rush of Blood To The Heart (BBC Introducing Maida Vale session) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaphIFvupE#ws)
tip this band to blow up big time
+ sorry if you like drumming watch this the whole way
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Fucking awesome album.
Doom/Stoner/Psychedelic/etc...female vocals.
i just downloaded it yesterday. Definitely a good listen.
ÆGES - The Bridge
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Beach House - Bloom
Definitely my favorite release of 2012 so far.
Kimbra sounds good :P
Quote from: defTHE1s on Jul 29, 2012, 07:31 PM
Kimbra sounds good :P
Word on the internetz is that she's collaborating with the Dillinger Escape Plan. Minds will be blown.
Quote from: Starz on Feb 15, 2012, 04:58 PM
Yppah - D. song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVo8Y9OmH_w#)
Thanks you SO MUCH for this.
No problem. That Yppah album is amazinggg
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Vision of Disorder - The Cursed Remain Cursed
OM - Advaitoc Songs
Ihsahn - Eremita
Deathspell Omega - Drought
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Marilyn Manson - Born Villain
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
The Senseless - The Floating World
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumnity
Down - IV Part I The Purple EP
haarp - husks
still have new soundgarden, pig destroyer, neurosis, enslaved, the sword, converge, dragged into sunlight, anaal nathrakh and KNY to look forward to. 2012 has been the best year for new music in a long time.
only took 8 years, but the new Wintersun is spectacular.
2012 hasn't brought me anything good as of yet
then you should broaden your horizons, or you're just not looking hard enough.
Quote from: Crazylegs on Nov 02, 2012, 10:00 PM
then you should broaden your horizons, or you're just not looking hard enough.
My horizons are very broad, im discovering plenty of new stuff...but mostly from the 70s, 80s and 90s tis all :)
so you like NOTHING in this whole thread.
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Nov 02, 2012, 11:05 PM
so you like NOTHING in this whole thread.
Well i like Crosses obviously...i was thinking more in terms of albums as a whole really. Crosses is an Extended Play...and i like plenty of songs from bands this year. Just cant really pinpoint a full length record that is like WOW!
you need a new set of ears if nothing has tickled your fancy in 2012. One of the best years for new music in a long ass time.
Quote from: only pieces remain on Nov 03, 2012, 12:02 AM
you need a new set of ears if nothing has tickled your fancy in 2012. One of the best years for new music in a long ass time.
I probably just havnt searched well enough i guess.... as i said, plenty of songs that have been incredible but no full releases that have excited me . Sorry guys :(
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Quote from: DAFTPUNK87 on Nov 08, 2012, 09:08 PM
THIS
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EXACTLY!!!!
For me, it's this.
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KNY is definitely up there for me. It is getting to be that time of year though, what else is scheduled to come out this year? Anything?
in alphabetical order by album title.
FUCKING AWESOME, KEEPS GETTING BETTER
Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
A Forest of Stars: A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
The Great Old Ones: Al Azif
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Addaura: Burning For the Ancients
Meshuggah: Koloss
Periphery: Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
fun.: Some Nights
mewithoutYou: Ten Stories
Woman is the Earth: This Place That Contains My Spirit
Omega Centauri: Universum Infinitum
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
My Dying Bride: A Map of All Our Failures
Hypno5e: Acid Mist Tomorrow
Ragana: All's Lost
Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Azure Ray: As Above So Below
Deerhoof: The Break-up Song
Galaktik Cancer Squad: Celestia
Necro Deathmort: The Colonial Script
Blut aus Nord: 777 - Cosmosophy
Dodecahedron: Dodecahedron
Ea: Ea
Devil Sold His Soul: Empire of Light
Galaktik Cancer Squad: The Gathering
School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay
Clark: Iradelphic
Panopticon: Kentucky
Gojira: L'enfant sauvage
7Vortex: Leave in Past
Love Sex Machine: Love Sex Machine
Mal Etre: Medication
Saltillo: Monocyte
Monolithe: Monolithe III
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace: Nadir
Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden
Black Sheep Wall: No Matter Where It Ends
Be'lakor: Of Breath and Bone
Monarch: Omens
The Flashbulb: Opus at the End of the World
Bend the sky: Origins
Ufomammut: oRo
The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald)
Between the Buried and Me: The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Ne Obliviscaris: Portal of I
Taylor Swift: Red
Swans: The Seer
Sinistro: Sinistro
Mondstille: Seelenwund
Galaktik Cancer Squad: Strange Spheres of Hyperborea
Wavelength:Satan: Time-blood Theory
Author & Punisher: Ursus Americanus
Vattnet Viskar: Vattnet Viskar
Sky Burial: Where Four Rivers Flow
Year Of No Light / Altar Of Plagues: Year of No Light / Altar of Plagues
[spoiler=other things i've listened to from this year]
DECENT, NEED MORE LISTENS
Chimp Spanner: All Roads Lead to Here
Les Discrets: Ariettes oubliées
Irreversible: Ashes
P.H.O.B.O.S.: Atonal Hypermnesia
Mumford & Sons: Babel
Brume D'Automne: Brume d'Automne
Ides of Gemini: Constantinople
El-P: Cure 4 Cancer
Botonist: III: Doom in Bloom
Abigail Williams: Becoming
Anthony Green: Beginnings
Axis of Light: By the Hands of the Consuming Fire
Kalya Scintilla: Dance the Spiral Never Ending
Architects: Daybreakers
Barren Earth: The Devil's Resolve
Yppah: Eighty One
Demdike Stare: Elemental
Swallow the Sun: Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Mutilation Rites: Empyrean
Blue Sky Black Death: Exalted (feat. Nacho Picasso)
Clark: Fantasm Planes
Tilly and the Wall: Heavy Mood
Holy Other: Held
Eluveitie: Helvetios
Pg. Lost: Key
Alcest: Les voyages de l'Âme
Gojira: L'enfant Savage
Alkerdeel: Morinde
Soap&Skin: Narrow
Triste L'Hiver: New Illusions
Old Man Gloom: No
Bérangère Maximin: No One is an Island
Wreck and Reference: No Youth
Be'lakor: Of Breath and Bone
Lustre: Of Strength and Solace
Triste L'Hiver: Once Again
Comus: Out of a Coma
Mares of Thrace: The Pilgrimage
Arbor: The Plutonian Shore
If These Trees Could Talk: Red Forest
Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror
Murder Construct: Results
Secrets of the Moon: Seven Bells
Grizzly Bear: Shields
Purity Ring: Shrines
Morgue of Saints: Sleep/Death
Snowgoons: Snowgoons Dynasty
Sadgiqacea: Submerged in Manichea
7 Horns 7 Eyes: Throes of Absolution
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
Njiqahdda: Towers and Tides
Sigur Ros: Valtari
Eternum: Veil of Ancient Darkness
Grouper: Violet Replacement
In Mourning: The Weight of Oceans
Laster: Wijsgeer & Narreman
Dead Fader: Work it, No
Unsane: Wreck
NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE
Om: Advaitic Songs
Those Poor Bastards: Behold the Abyss
Beach House: Bloom
Mount Eerie: Clear Moon
Cyclopian: Cyclopian
Ahab: The Giant
Monuments: Gnosis
Passion Pit: Gossamer
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes: Here
Fang Island: Major
Deastro: Incinerator
Snowblink: Inner Classic
Crushed Stars: In the Bright Rain
Goats Of Doom: Lost In Time And Void
Band of Horses: Mirage Rock
Mnemic: Mnemesis
Autumn, Leaves, Scars: Negative
Art By Numbers: Reticence: The Musical
Bellows: Reelin'
The Cranberries: Roses
Drapsnatt: Skelepht
Wizard Rifle: Speak Loud Say Nothing
Storm Corrosion: Storm Corrosion
Circa Survive: Violent Waves
Datsik: Vitamin D
Turing Machine: What is the Meaning of What
Punch Brothers: Who's Feeling Young Now?
Lovedrug: Wild Blood
Celldweller: Wish Upon a Blackstar
FUCKING GARBAGE
lotus circle: Caves
Behold! the Monolith: Defender. Redeemist
BlackBurner: Feel the Burn
Hail Spirit Noir: Pneuma
Aidan Baker: Spectrum of Distraction
Arcane Roots: Left Fire
Cursive: I Am Gemini
Twilight Fauna: The Silence of a Blackening Abyss
Klank: Urban Warfare
Begrime Exemious: Visions of the Scourge
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Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
long list of albums
did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.
Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Nov 09, 2012, 12:06 AM
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.
Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.
Haha. Yeah I can dig some pop records from time to time but Taylor Swift is one that just gets under my skin. Her schtick wore out like 5 years ago.
Quote from: DAFTPUNK87 on Nov 08, 2012, 09:08 PM
THIS
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I concur
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Nov 09, 2012, 12:06 AM
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.
Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.
Yeah.. I liked Lana Del Rey's album a lot. Check out
Lykki Li she rocks, and so does
Frankie Roseand if you think he listens to a lot.. I wish you could see my iTunes Library..
Quote from: Jacob on Nov 09, 2012, 12:01 AM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
long list of albums
did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?
Let me play this through. On a normal day I work 9-10 hours, sleep 7-8 hours, and let me pretend I could use every single minute of my free time for listening to music, then its absolutely possible.
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
did i stutter?
Quote from: Jacob on Nov 09, 2012, 12:01 AM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
long list of albums
did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?
not even close. i had notifications set up to see everything that's uploaded to a certain website from 2012, and then i scan through and bookmark/download everything that looks interesting, and then mix it into the queue of everything else i'm listening to (in order of download. i'm only about 1000+ albums and two years behind on that).
as to getting the "full experience", i'll admit that i probably don't digest a lot of this stuff as much as i could. but i'm ok with the trade off. i never delete anything, and use rym extensively to help keep my thoughts straight about something. i will eventually revisit it, and it might be a nice little gem to discover in my library, or it might remain in the "eh" category...but maybe next time it will click with me. i just really love music, and i want to hear as much of it as possible. proper digestion will happen if i like something enough, don't you fret.
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Nov 09, 2012, 12:06 AM
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.
Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.
i'm not afraid to admit when i like something. i like what i like, and that's that. i will say that i really tried not to like taytay for a long time, but i just can't help it. she's like that little sister that is sometimes annoying, but you love her to death and would do anything for her, and you want to keep her safe. i've come to terms with that.
and like i said, i like to keep things wide open music-wise. i just started doing a metal radio show at a local college though, so my metal intake has definitely bumped up recently.
Quote from: DAFTPUNK87 on Nov 09, 2012, 03:10 AM
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Nov 09, 2012, 12:06 AM
Quote from: sing blue silver on Nov 08, 2012, 11:56 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red
wat?
Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.
Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.
Yeah.. I liked Lana Del Rey's album a lot. Check out Lykki Li she rocks, and so does Frankie Rose
and if you think he listens to a lot.. I wish you could see my iTunes Library..
challenge accepted.
i will also note that everything in my itunes library has been listened to, i don't add things to my itunes until i'm ready to listen to them.
Quote from: black coffee on Nov 09, 2012, 01:18 PM
Quote from: Jacob on Nov 09, 2012, 12:01 AM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Nov 08, 2012, 10:33 PM
long list of albums
did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?
Let me play this through. On a normal day I work 9-10 hours, sleep 7-8 hours, and let me pretend I could use every single minute of my free time for listening to music, then its absolutely possible.
yup that's about right. i listen to music all day at work.
at home i have a policy to only listen to albums that i physically own.
my car i can listen to whatever i want, but lately i've just been picking one CD to have on repeat there for a few weeks at a time, and rotate it as needed.
much respect to you. I used to have an unhealthy love for music and would use every wake hour to listen to something, finding new bands all the time etc. but somewhere along the road that kinda got lost and now I'm usually sitting comfortably with the same old stuff. rarely getting into new artists these days, which really sucks. but honestly, I find most of the new things I hear rather uninteresting and uninspired. and I've never been one to try to force myself to like something.
Deftones
Smashing Pumpkins
Silversun Pickups
Meshuggah
Gojira
Quote from: Jacob on Nov 12, 2012, 04:01 PM
much respect to you. I used to have an unhealthy love for music and would use every wake hour to listen to something, finding new bands all the time etc. but somewhere along the road that kinda got lost and now I'm usually sitting comfortably with the same old stuff. rarely getting into new artists these days, which really sucks. but honestly, I find most of the new things I hear rather uninteresting and uninspired. and I've never been one to try to force myself to like something.
this is exactly what i'm trying to avoid.
i never want to reach that point where i think to myself "eh, that's enough", and only listen to the bands i know at that point. i never want to lose that desire to find my next favorite artist.
do you have a last.fm/rym or something? i'd love to make some recommendations to you. i like sharing music with people almost as much as i love finding it myself.
Yeah Velvet, I dropped this a bit, but I used to go visit your O Discordia blogspot regularly, and found so many awesome stuff there...
I never (or it's been too long and I can't remember) properly thank you for that, but you rock brother !
As they say, god speed, and thanks for all the fish...
awesome! the blog is sorta in limbo right now because my mediafire account got shut down. :( so all the links are dead.
i'm in the process of porting everything over to http://o-discordia.tumblr.com/ (http://o-discordia.tumblr.com/) though. it's like 200 albums i need to upload though, so it's a slow process, and also i'm busy and shit. ;) hopefully i'll have everything up and running by the new year though, in time for my 2012 picks.
i said though way too many times in that post though.
That's OK though... ;)
haha. yeah your blog is great for year-end picks. 90% of the best-of picks is normally stuff i've never heard.
So it's time to start making top 10 lists soon i guess. I usually check these and try and listen to stuff i haven't already.
I can never narrow any list to 10 though. I think last year I put up like 25-30 haha.
i was going to just do a top 10 this year, but since i started hosting a metal radio show, i kinda gotta do a top 10 metal.
Radio host eh, cool beans. I think a top 10 should be possible. There has to be some releases that separate themselves from the pack.
yeah it's just a small college station with a radius of like 10 miles, but it's a lot of fun all the same. :)
this year has been awesome for music, just like every year.
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Dec 12, 2012, 04:51 PM
this year has been awesome for music, just like every year.
Well said. I usually discover just as much older stuff as new stuff anyway.
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Only album that quickly springs to mind.Then again I just finished 12 hours of work.I'm sure I'll have more after sleep.
Quote from: Crazylegs on Dec 12, 2012, 05:19 PM
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Dec 12, 2012, 04:51 PM
this year has been awesome for music, just like every year.
Well said. I usually discover just as much older stuff as new stuff anyway.
Yeah I've been discovering alot of interesting music I've been taking more of an interest in NZ music and found some real gems but usually the bands I'm finding have done one or two albums then dissolved which is pretty sad
- Golden Earring Tits 'n Ass (just cause).
- Deftones Koi No Yokan.
- Devil Sold His Soul Empire Of Light.
- Converge All We Love We Leave Behind.
- Jaya The Cat The New International Sound Of Hedonism.
- Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra Theatre Is Evil.
- Killing Joke MMXII.
- Blacl Everest / Captain, Your Ship Is Sinking Split LP.
- News of new records by; RSJ, Earthtone9, Green Lizard, Goodbye Black Skye, Will Haven.
in alphabetical order
Ancients - Star Showers On The Euphrates
C.B Murdoc - The Green
Caspian - Waking Summer
Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Crosses - EP 2
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Maserati - VII
Meshuggah - Koloss
Mono - For My Parents
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Torche - Harmonicraft
Trail Of Dead - Lost Songs
The Unwinding Hours - Afterlives
I've tried to list in order of how much i've listened to the albums. So number 1 has been played most.
1. Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The death defying unicorn
2. Neurosis - Honor found in decay
3. Susanne Sundfør - The silicone veil
4. Earth - Angels of darkness, demons of light II
5. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
6. Jack White - Blunderbuss
7. Sunswitch - Sunswitch
8. Om - Advaitic songs
9. Scott Kelly / Steve Von Till / Wino - Songs of Townes Van Zandt
10. The Sword - Apocryphon
my top 10 not-metal list is going to be a lot easier to figure out, i only have 13 candidates after the first round of eliminations.
however i have 19 to choose from for the metal list.
this is undoubtedly because i've listened to a ton more metal this year than not-metal.
1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Vision of Disorder - The Cursed Remain Cursed
3. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
4. Converge - All we Love we Leave Behind
5. OM - Advaitoc Songs
6. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
7. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
8. Ihsahn - Eremita
9. Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay
10. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
11. Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
12. The Senseless - The Floating World
13. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
14. Witchcraft - Legend
15. Deathspell Omega - Drought
i left off these because they didn't quite make it:
kataonia - dead end kings
haarp - husks
gojira - infant sausage
the sword - apocryphon
lamb of god - resolution
dying fetus - reign supreme
dragged into sunlight - widowmaker
cattle decapitation - monolith of inhumanity
down - iv
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Loving this right now.
Quote from: theis on Feb 05, 2012, 04:24 PM
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So fucking good!
This tops my list. No question.
i just downloaded that Caspian.
don't think i'm going to get to it in time. :(
i believe i have my lists set.
reviews within the next few weeks hopefully.
NOT METAL
01 mewithoutYou: Ten Stories
02 Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
03 Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'
04 fun.: Some Nights
05 7Vortex: Leave In Past
06 Swans: The Seer
07 Clark: Iradelphic
08 School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
09 Bat For Lashes: The Haunted Man
10 Author & Punisher: Ursus Americanus
Metal
01 The Great Old Ones: Al Azif
02 Woman is the Earth: This Place That Contains My Spirit
03 A Forest of Stars: A Shadowplay For Yesterday
04 Addaura: Burning For the Ancients
05 Sinistro: Sinistro
06 Omega Centauri: Universum Infinitum
07 Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
08 Meshuggah: Koloss
09 Hypno5e: Acid Mist Tomorrow
10 Monolithe: Monolithe III
vortex and swans aren't really doing it for me :( trying the others still
mewithoutyou was pretty good
Must admit Ten Stories hasn't really gotten my full attention but I'm all in this time.
Swans is definitely a monster album, and takes time to sink in.
if you're not into glitchy stuff i can understand your ambivalence to 7Vortex.
10. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
9. Death Grips - The Money Store
8. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
7. Christian Mistress - Possession
6. Ghostlimb - Confluence
5. Majeure - Solar Maximum
4. Killer Mike - RAP Music
3. Cerce - Tour Sampler CD-R
2. Faunts - Left Here Alone
1. Om - Advaitic Songs
Honorable Mentions:
Basement - Colourmeinkindness
Client. - Demo
Guts Out - Demo 2012
The Jealous Sound - A gentle Reminder
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Such Gold - Misadventures
Disappointments:
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
Maserati - VII
The Safety Fire - Grind the Ocean
on reflection
favourite electronic thing of 2012
Burial & Four Tet - Moth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmUOTR3vH4#ws)
favourite rock moment is biceratops 'are we here' which isnt actually on youtube which sucks, spotify has it if you wanna rate/dismiss my taste in music
1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Ørkenkjøtt - Ønskediktet
3. Baroness - Yellow & Green
4. Soundgarden - King Animal
5. Moron Police - The Propaganda Machine
6. Meshuggah - Koloss
7. Anathema - Weather Systems
8. Ihsahn - Eremita
9. Dysrythmia - Test of Submission
10. Stealing Axion - Moments
holy shit how do you know about Moron Police?
Quote from: Velvet Tongue on Dec 21, 2012, 11:07 PM
holy shit how do you know about Moron Police?
I'm Norwegian, and i think there's tons of great rock and metal-bands over here, Moron Police included
right on.
i post on a messageboard with one of those dudes. :)
Just realized I haven't spent enough time on finding new music this year..
Burial and Four Tet tune was released in 2009.
here are my favorites-
metal-
1 Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - IIII: The Alpha The Omega
2 Baroness - Yellow & Green
3 Rings of Saturn - Dingir
4 Wintersun - Time I
5 Dysphoria - To the Perfect Form of Modern Species
6 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
7 The Korea - Chariots From the Gods
8 Acacia Strain - Death is the Only Mortal
9 Meshuggah - Koloss
10 The Chariot - One Wing
11 Torche - Harmonicraft
12 Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
everything else-
1 JJAMZ - Suicide Pact
2 BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2
3 Death Grips - The Money Store
4 Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart
5 Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
6 Caspian - Waking Season
7 Azealia Banks - Fantasea
8 Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
9 Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
10 Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
11 Kimbra - Vows
12 Purity Ring - Shrines
13 GOOD Music - Cruel Summer
14 Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
^ No Gojira, High on Fire or Every Time I Die?
nope, ETID was close, but I had to stop somewhere.
kingsleep -worlds apart
mewithoutyou -ten stories
devil sold his soul -empire of light
caspian -waking season
gybe -allelujah! dont bend! ascend!
the saddest landscape -after the lights
herbstlaub -streets aren't for dreaming youth
mattir -otter
hoff -hibernate
HANDLINGNOISE -s/t
the townhouses -diaspora
a whisper in the noise -to forget
boyfrndz -all day pass
and more
Grimes - Visions (The most cliche best of 2012 pick there is but for good reason.)
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Circa Survive - Violent Waves
Crosses - Ep 2
Prize Fighter Inferno - Half Measures EP (only 4 songs but 4 of the best songs of the year by far)
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Metal:
1. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
2. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
4. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
5. Baroness - Yellow & Green
6. Meshuggah - Koloss
7. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
8. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
9. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
10. Lamb of God - Resolution
Non-Metal:
1. Graveyard - Lights Out
2. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
3. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
4. Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
5. Soundgarden - King Animal
6. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
7. Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme
8. Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
9. Swans - The Seer
10. Rush - Clockwork Angels
King Animal was a mighty pleasant surprise
love it
It's been a good year for music. I didn't think it would be able to top 2011 but in some ways it has. Saying that though, its been quite hard for me to pick a definitive 'Top 10 Albums of 2012' because there wasn't actually one stand out album that blew my mind. 2012 has been more of an endless stream of great music with many albums I know I'll go back to time and time again. I also call 2012 the year for 'women' as a lot of great bands and artists released albums this year who were female or had a female singer.
This list is more of what I listened to the most this year rather than being the best albums of 2012 which you have to hear right now...
1. Yppah - Eighty One
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I've listened to this album so much that I honestly forgot that it was even released in 2012. It felt like more of a classic album I fell in love with years ago. Definitely a summer record for reminiscing about when you and her were together late at night on the beach. Think Massive Attack beats and vocals layered over the top of Lights Out Asia's guitars and atmosphere.
2. Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues
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Surprised to see this album go under the radar as much as it has. "Through The Thicket..." is probably my most played song this year. The vocal melodies, lyrics and THAT guitar solo at the end are worthy of constant repeat listens. Deftones and Dillinger Escape Plan similarities aside, this is an album with much more focus and stronger songwriting skills than their debut, partly due to the addition of second guitarist Jeffrey Zampillo who brings his Mars Volta and jazz influences to the table. Apart from the slight issue of lacking in the production department, this is one of the strongest metal albums released this year, which deserves much more attention.
3. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
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Probably my most anticipated release of 2012 and it didn't disappoint. Took several listens to fully appreciate what was going on here but that's what happens with all great albums; you need time and patience to truly marvel in its glory. Where I saw "Diamond Eyes" as being the bands most commercial release to date, having got that out of their system it's good to hear them going back to creating melody and atmosphere as opposed to full on rocking out. Here we see Deftones at their best, drawing the listener in with Chino's harmonies and stories of dark relationships and environments. This is far becoming my second favourite Deftones album after S/T.
4. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
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Everything Devin touches lately seems to turn to gold and Epicloud can definitely be considered to be a part of that category. His ambient, new age project "Ghost" was in my top 10 albums of 2011 and he's back again in my top 10 list. Devin is a non-stop songwriting machine! Epic vocals, epic guitars, epic drumming and epic songs all add up to the most theatrical and fun album of the year.
5. Caspian - Waking Season
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I'm so happy this album got made. Whilst I'm a fan of the bands previous outings, the production was always a sticking point for me and the band really needed an engineer/producer to come in and hone their craft (which I find a lot of post-rock music needs now a days to stop becoming too monotonous). Luckily for us, Matt Bayle's did just that. Gone is the self-produced sound of "Tertia" and in is the sound of classic microphones and old analogue gear recorded in the grandiose surroundings of Q Division studios in Somerville, MA. On another day this album would be number one on my list. It seriously is that good.
6. Hammock - Departure Songs
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A double album is always an ambitious task for any band but with Hammock it's a welcome gift, as you can never get enough of their ambient, dreamy guitars cascading over haunting vocals and drums. With "Raising Your Voice..." they set the standard for what beauty should sound like coming out of a pair of speakers but yet again they've raised (pun not intended) the bar with this release. For long and lonely cold nights.
7. Hunting Grounds - In Hindsight
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Debut album from Australian band Hunting Grounds who do the indie space-rock with synths and vocals to astoundingly good effect for a band so young. Think The Music meets Empire of the Sun and you've got the ingredients for an eclectic mix of reverb drenched melody and maturity.
8. John Talabot - Fin
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Despite being released in the early parts of 2012, John Talabot's 'Fin' was a late listen for me despite lot's of rave reviews and publicity. Mainly set in the organic side of house music, Fin showcases beautiful craftsmanship with his beats and samples and somehow manages to stray away from the usual 4 to the floor cliche of house but still remains cemented in its roots. Pional offers some great vocals on a couple of the tracks here which adds to one of the best electronic albums released in 2012. Good stuff.
9. Now, Now - Threads
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This trio offer one of the unexpected highlights of 2012 with their etheral and melanconly indie/pop. The atmosphere is created through a combination of crisp guitar layers, understated synths, the intriguing mix of Cacie Dalager's lower-tone whisper and Jess Abbott's floating harmonies and meticulous work on song structures.
10. Air Tycoon – Winter Purple
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Joining other rising instrumental hip-hop artists like Clams Casino, Illinois resident Joe Garcia is making infectious and colorful tracks under the moniker Air Tycoon. Winter Purple is a tour de force of chopped-and-screwed beats, hauntingly catchy and manipulated vocal samples (as on "Minimal" and standout track "Care For You"), cavernous bass, and atmospheric synth work that ought to impress even the snobbiest Boards of Canada fans.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Baroness - Yellow and Green
Basement - Colourmekindness
Beach House - Bloom
Burial - Kindred EP
BvDub - All Is Forgiven
Chairlift - Something
THE CHARIOT - ONE WING
Crystal Castles - 3
Devil Sold His Soul - Empire Of Light
Earth House Hold - When Love Lived
Efterklang - Piramida
Foe - Bad Dream Hotline
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Groundislava - Feel Me
IamamIwhoamI - Kin
The Invisible - Rispah
Lemonade - Diver
Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Menomena - Moms
Minus The Bear - Infinity Overhead
Mutiny on the Bounty - Trials
ORCAS - S/T
Paul Banks - Banks
Pirate Ship Quintet - Rope for No-Hopers
Polica - Give You The Ghost
POP WINDS - EARTH TO FRIEND
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
Purity Ring - Shrines
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - GHOSTORY
Sharon Von Etten - Tramp
Stomacher - Clara
Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
The Unwinding Hours - Afterlives
I'd like to add 2 albums to my best of list that are just now finally getting some serious play time:
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAD City
I gotta add 'Father John Misty - Fear Fun' to my list.
Can't remember the last time I've been this hooked on an album.
Favourites (in no particular order):
Caspian: Waking Season
Alt-J: An Awesome Wave
Beach House: Bloom
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
Japandroids: Celebration Rock
Lights Out Asia: Hy Brasil
Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods
Deftones:Koi No Yokan
Tame Impala: Lonerism
Other good ones:
Mark Lanegan Band- Blues Funeral
Grimes- Visions
Purity Ring- Shrines
Sigur Ros- Valtari
Bloc Party- Four
Crosses- EP 2
Black Phoenix Orchestra: A Manics Madness EP (* Unbelievable Calgary act.)
Miike Snow- Happy to you
Passion Pit- Gossamer
Of Monsters & Men- My Head is an Animal
Matt Mays- Coyote
I have to add:
"Silent Machine" by Twelve Foot Ninja
"Portal Of I" by Ne Obliviscaris
"Flight Of A Dying Sun" by Purified in Blood
"Two" by Aristillus
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jan 31, 2013, 07:39 PM
I'd like to add 2 albums to my best of list that are just now finally getting some serious play time:
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAD City
Tame Impala has really become quite commercial, can't say I'm suprised though. Innerspeaker was amazing.
I'd like to add Norska - Norska
fucking great!
Quote from: Crazylegs on Feb 25, 2013, 12:51 AM
I'd like to add Norska - Norska
fucking great!
So.... I had downloaded this for months, and finally got to listen to it today.
It's indeed fucking great !!! Really really awesome !
Thanks Crazylegs for the discovery...
Cool, man. Yeah it's definitely one of my favorites from last year. I think they have a pretty original sound for a sludge band.