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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: atomicfront on December 04, 2012, 05:07:50 pm
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1) Of Monsters and Men - "My Head is an Animal"
2) Lana Del Rey - "Born to Die"
3) Beach House - "Bloom"
4) First Aid Kit - "the Lions Roar"
5) Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - "Theatre is Evil"
6) Lower Dens - "Nootropics"
7) Santigold - "Master of Make-Believe"
8) The Lumineers -s/t
9) Best Coast - "The only place"
10) Le Sera - "Sees the Light"
11) Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea"
12) Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeros - Here"
13) Rufus Wainwright - "Out of the Game"
14) Here We Go Magic - "A Different Ship"
15) Bear in Heaven - "I love you, it's cool"
16) Alabama Shakes - "Boys and Girls"
17) Sharon Van Etten - "Tramp"
18) M. Ward - "A wasteland companion"
19) Bowerbirds - "the clearing"
20) Chromatics - "Kill for Love"
21) Allo Dahlin - "Europe"
22) Islands - "A Sleep and Forgetting"
23) Bat for Lashes "The Haunted Man"
24) Alt J - an awesome wave
25) Django Django -s/t
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All things Gary Clark Jr and Dan Auerbach
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There were only maybe six albums this year that passed the "I'll listen to this enough times that the artist deserves my money for it" test. Not that it was a bad year for music, I just didn't get into much new stuff and went to more shows as opposed to bought music.
That being said, of the albums I bought this year my favorite was...
Future of the Left - the plot against common sense
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So you only added six albums to your collection?
There were only maybe six albums this year that passed the "I'll listen to this enough times that the artist deserves my money for it" test. Not that it was a bad year for music, I just didn't get into much new stuff and went to more shows as opposed to bought music.
That being said, of the albums I bought this year my favorite was...
Future of the Left - the plot against common sense
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how cute . . . he trying again.
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Trust - TRST (album of the year)
Ssion - Bent
Swans - Seer
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
Daughn Gibson - All Hell
Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Jessie Ware - Devotion
GY!BE - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Deep Time - self titled
The Walkmen - Heaven
Cat Power - Sun
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
U.S. Girls - Gem
Liars - WIXIW
Matthew Dear - Beams
may add some more
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So you only added six albums to your collection?
There were only maybe six albums this year that passed the "I'll listen to this enough times that the artist deserves my money for it" test. Not that it was a bad year for music, I just didn't get into much new stuff and went to more shows as opposed to bought music.
That being said, of the albums I bought this year my favorite was...
Future of the Left - the plot against common sense
Yep, I usually preview stuff on Spotify or something and then buy it if I'll listen to it more than a few times. I do believe my cd collection only increased by 6 albums this year. Might have been a few more, but I can't think of any.
I went to 4/5 shows a month, so I had to save money somewhere.
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1.) Beach House - Bloom
2.) School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
3.) Deftones - Koi No Yokan
4.) Tame Impala - Lonerism
5.) Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
6.) Cat Power - Sun
7.) MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds
8.) Bloc Party - Four
9.) Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu
10.) Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
11.) Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
12.) Justin Jones - Fading Light
13.) Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
14.) Jack White - Blunderbuss
15.) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat + Bone
16.) Glen Hansard - Rhythm and Repose
17.) Local H - Hallelujah! I'm a Bum
18.) Ty Segall - Twins
19.) Shearwater - Animal Joy
20.) David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
21.) Metric - Synthetica
22.) Milo Greene - Milo Greene
23.) The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
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No order (and well short of 23):
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Young and In the Way - Amen/I am Not What I am
Devalued - Plagues
Tresspasser - Wages of Faith
DIIV - Oshin
Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Dads - American Radass
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Aunt Martha - La La Lonesome
Ceremony - Zoo
Swans - Seer
Killing Joke - MMXII
Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze
Double Negative (singles)
The Men - Open Your Heart
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No way I could come up with 23 records for this year.
My list includes:
The Evens -- The Odds
Chromatics -- Kill For Love
Best Coast -- The Only Place
Dinosaur Jr. -- I Bet on Sky
OFF! -- OFF!
The Hives -- Lex Hives
The Young Evils -- Foreign Spells EP
I still need to get the last XX record, and I'm sure there are a few more. Best thing I've heard all year is that Evens record though. Love it.
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Dinosaur Jr. -- I Bet on Sky
OFF! -- OFF!
Forgot about those.
Geez, my list is horrific.
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I usually say "this is not in order" but as I look at it, it's pretty much in order.
Capsule ? Stereo Worxxx
Chromatics ? Kill for Love
Dizzy D ? The Huntsvillain
Grimes ? Oblivion
High on Fire ? Devermis Mysteriis
The Caretaker ? Patience (After Sebald)
Killer Mike ? RAP Music
Bob Mould ? Silver Age
Daughn Gibson ? All Hell
Ty Segall Band ? Slaughterhouse
Fat Trel ? Nightmare on E Street
Chains of Love ? Strange Grey Days
Crystal Castles ? III
Mr. Motherfuckin Exquire ? The Man in the High Castle
DIIV - Oshin
?Trail of Dead ? Lost Songs
Kendrick Lamarr ? Good Kid MAAD City
Taylor Swift ? Red
Azoic ? Gateways
Fight Amp ? Birth Control
Six Organs of Admittance ? Ascent
Place to Bury Strangers - Worship
Nas ? Life is Good
And then I have to recognize this last album. It's a complete clusterfucked trainwreck of a hot mess that bears no resemblance to music or even sound for that matter. I first listened to it as an ironic lark, just to hear it and couldn't believe what I was hearing. It's past camp and beyond so-bad-its-good, it's Metal Machine Music for 11 year olds. According to iTunes, I listened to it all the way through 53 times (takes a long look in mirror).
Farrah Abraham ? My Teenage Dream Ended
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And then I have to recognize this last album. It's a complete clusterfucked trainwreck of a hot mess that bears no resemblance to music or even sound for that matter. I first listened to it as an ironic lark, just to hear it and couldn't believe what I was hearing. It's past camp and beyond so-bad-its-good, it's Metal Machine Music for 11 year olds. According to iTunes, I listened to it all the way through 53 times (takes a long look in mirror).
Farrah Abraham ? My Teenage Dream Ended
"The accompanying album has been widely criticised for its extensively autotuned vocals and bland production. Her single On My Own was derided as one of the worst works of pop music ever made, eclipsing Rebecca Black's Friday. But despite garnering mockery in the popular media, the arrhythmic and cheaply digitized presentation of deeply confessional lyrics was bewildering enough to lead some to instead view it as a contemporary example of outsider art. Writing for The Atlantic, David Cooper Moore suggested that the album "is to teen angst what Eraserhead was to domestic angst", making it "a dark and compelling experiment in abstracting and compressing the vicissitudes of 'high school drama.'" The Guardian ranked it 32 on their list of best albums of the year" (wikipedia)
now i can't look away.
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It's definitely in the 'hurts so good' category. Plus I get kinda hot about the idea of a 42-year-old man really digging on an album called 'My Teenage Dream Ended'.
Mine too Farrah. Mine too.
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I bought the Ke$ha album yesterday. I feel your pain.
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I have the Ke$ha album and am looking forward to hearing it. There was some really good pop this year. Carly Rae Jepsen's album is great and I easily could've included that in my top 23. And I've never liked anything Taylor Swift has done before, and I think her media persona is absolutely eye-rolling, but half the songs on Red are great pop music.
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I have the Ke$ha album and am looking forward to hearing it. There was some really good pop this year. Carly Rae Jepsen's album is great and I easily could've included that in my top 23. And I've never liked anything Taylor Swift has done before, and I think her media persona is absolutely eye-rolling, but half the songs on Red are great pop music.
I was at trivia the other night and we had a series of pictures of children and we had to identify the famous person that they are now are as an adult. I got them all except the Taylor Swift one. I said to my teammates I don't even know what Taylor Swift looks like and they said she looks like you.
So I just looked it up and she is hot. I was expecting something much worse. I can deal with being a male taylor swift.
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I have the Ke$ha album and am looking forward to hearing it. There was some really good pop this year. Carly Rae Jepsen's album is great and I easily could've included that in my top 23. And I've never liked anything Taylor Swift has done before, and I think her media persona is absolutely eye-rolling, but half the songs on Red are great pop music.
The album is really good power pop radio music. I love it. I love that Iggy Pop is on it. It's fun.
Taylor Swift is adorable, but I haven't bought any of her music.
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Flag on the play - improper use of the term power pop - The new Shoes record is a perfect example of radio ready power pop, if it were the 70s of course ;)
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i lost relaxer amongst the rough seas
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I was here on the dock waiting for you the whole time.
You forced me into the arms of the ocean.
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Flag on the play - improper use of the term power pop - The new Shoes record is a perfect example of radio ready power pop, if it were the 70s of course ;)
I like calling it that. (this made me smile)
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Anywho, here are some of my favorite records:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Walkmen - Heaven
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Dr. John - Locked Down
Santigold - Master of Make Belive
Metz
Fiona Apple - Long Titile
Cat Power - Sun (although it's the first 1/2 that's the strongest)
Ty Segall - Twins
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
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Anywho, here are some of my favorite records:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Walkmen - Heaven
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Dr. John - Locked Down
Santigold - Master of Make Belive
Metz
Fiona Apple - Long Titile
Cat Power - Sun (although it's the first 1/2 that's the strongest)
Ty Segall - Twins
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
Cat Power's albums are always above average, however... she ALWAYS has a track or two that just fucking amazing. Love the track Manhattan on Sun, one of those tracks that you can listen to over and over again.
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Spiritualized "Hey Jane"
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My top 10:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-e-kessler/favorite-albums-2012_b_2231520.html
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Anywho, here are some of my favorite records:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Walkmen - Heaven
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Dr. John - Locked Down
Santigold - Master of Make Belive
Metz
Fiona Apple - Long Titile
Cat Power - Sun (although it's the first 1/2 that's the strongest)
Ty Segall - Twins
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
Cat Power's albums are always above average, however... she ALWAYS has a track or two that just fucking amazing. Love the track Manhattan on Sun, one of those tracks that you can listen to over and over again.
Agreed. I didn't like her last album, but really listened to Sun a bunch.
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this is pretty funny
http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012
Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2012
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that's pretty good:
Liars ? WIXIW
Men who used to be very, very good at difficult video games.
this is pretty funny
http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012
Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2012
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Cloud Nothings isn't on the list.
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Cloud Nothings isn't on the list.
either is of monsters and men
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ok, I'll add them:
If Cloud Nothings are you favorite, your head is in the clouds, because you like a band that means nothing to everyone else.
If Of Monsters and Men are your favorite, you tend to get very excited by the latest flavor Starbucks adds to their frappe menu.
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No particular order, and some 2011, but 2012 to me.
Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Fun. - Some Nights
The XX - Coexist
The Lumineers - Lumineers
Mumford and Sons - Babel
Carrie Underwood - Blown Away
Pink - The Truth About Love
Luke Bryan - Tailgates and Tanlines
Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - Dirty Radio
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Taylor Swift - Red
Lana Del Ray - Born to Die
Kishi Bashi - 151a
Kesha - Warrior
Zac Brown Band - Uncaged
Dr Dog - Be the Void
Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss
The Black Keys - El Camino (really late 2011)
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My list goes to 24.
1. The Walkmen, Heaven
2. Neil Young, Psychedelic Pill
3. Jamey Johnson, Livin for a Song
4. Father John Misty, Fear Fun
5. Bob Mould, Silver Age
6. Old Crow Medicine Show, Carry Me Back
7. Dr. Dog, Be the Void
8. Tift Merritt, Travelling Alone
9. Andrew Bird, Break it Yourself
10. Jimmy Cliff, Rebirth
11. Dwight Yoakam,3 Pears
12. Wanda Jackson, Unfinished Business
13. Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas
14. Jason Isbell, Live in Alabama
15. Heartless Bastards, Arrow
16. Sharon Van Etten, Tramp
17. Cody ChesNutt, Landing on a Hundrer
18. Rhett Miller, The Dreamer
19. Jesse Baylin, Little Spark
20. First Aid Kit, The Lion's Roar
21. Bryan Ferry Orchestra, The Jazz Age
22. Norah Jones, Little Broken Hearts
23. The Little Willies,For the Good Times
24. Lee Fields and the Expressions, Faithful Man
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
oh my you're really chompin at the bit today aren't you... go take a smoke break or something.
I bought the Django Django last week or so... found a promo of the CD
Sorry its nothing special... not sure how you can put it on a list of the best of 2012.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
oh my you're really chompin at the bit today aren't you... go take a smoke break or something.
I bought the Django Django last week or so... found a promo of the CD
Sorry its nothing special... not sure how you can put it on a list of the best of 2012.
I can put it on the best of 2012 because I like it. How hard is that for you to understand? Wait a second if I think Neil Young has put out 30 years of shitty music I am wrong for insulting people's opinions on here. But you actually hating everything that has been put out in the last 25 years is Ok?
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I can put it on the best of 2012 because I like it. How hard is that for you to understand? Wait a second if I think Neil Young has put out 30 years of shitty music I am wrong for insulting people's opinions on here. But you actually hating everything that has been put out in the last 25 years is Ok?
Here it comes.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
oh my you're really chompin at the bit today aren't you... go take a smoke break or something.
I bought the Django Django last week or so... found a promo of the CD
Sorry its nothing special... not sure how you can put it on a list of the best of 2012.
I can put it on the best of 2012 because I like it. How hard is that for you to understand? Wait a second if I think Neil Young has put out 30 years of shitty music I am wrong for insulting people's opinions on here. But you actually hating everything that has been put out in the last 25 years is Ok?
What makes you say this?? I have a billion albums I really like from the past 25 years!
Dude, seriously, forget about quitting the cigarettes..its making you be even more of a tool than usual.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
oh my you're really chompin at the bit today aren't you... go take a smoke break or something.
I bought the Django Django last week or so... found a promo of the CD
Sorry its nothing special... not sure how you can put it on a list of the best of 2012.
I can put it on the best of 2012 because I like it. How hard is that for you to understand? Wait a second if I think Neil Young has put out 30 years of shitty music I am wrong for insulting people's opinions on here. But you actually hating everything that has been put out in the last 25 years is Ok?
What makes you say this?? I have a billion albums I really like from the past 25 years!
Dude, seriously, forget about quitting the cigarettes..its making you be even more of a tool than usual.
you are trolling when you go around insulting every band I like. You don't like them who gives a shit? Guess what I am entittled to my opinion. As it is my own opinion. Not an opinion I got from listening to the music and enjoying it. I really like the Alt-j album. If you dont' like it more power to you. But I haven't insulted anyone's listings and it is easy for you because you haven't came up with a list for 2012.
Lists like these are useful in that if you like some of the bands you have heard on someone's list you might check out ones you don't know. It isn't meant to be a place for putting down other people's music. Just like in the other thread instead of listing bands that you think put out 5 great albums you had to attack me. Get a life. If all you are doing is posting about bands you like that every knew about 25 years ago you really aren't providing useful information.
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add Alt-J and Django-Django to my list.
good call! they are pretty popular this week
you would think someone as opinated about music as much as you would have made a list.
oh my you're really chompin at the bit today aren't you... go take a smoke break or something.
I bought the Django Django last week or so... found a promo of the CD
Sorry its nothing special... not sure how you can put it on a list of the best of 2012.
I can put it on the best of 2012 because I like it. How hard is that for you to understand? Wait a second if I think Neil Young has put out 30 years of shitty music I am wrong for insulting people's opinions on here. But you actually hating everything that has been put out in the last 25 years is Ok?
What makes you say this?? I have a billion albums I really like from the past 25 years!
Dude, seriously, forget about quitting the cigarettes..its making you be even more of a tool than usual.
you are trolling when you go around insulting every band I like. You don't like them who gives a shit? Guess what I am entittled to my opinion. As it is my own opinion. Not an opinion I got from listening to the music and enjoying it. I really like the Alt-j album. If you dont' like it more power to you. But I haven't insulted anyone's listings and it is easy for you because you haven't came up with a list for 2012.
Lists like these are useful in that if you like some of the bands you have heard on someone's list you might check out ones you don't know. It isn't meant to be a place for putting down other people's music. Just like in the other thread instead of listing bands that you think put out 5 great albums you had to attack me. Get a life. If all you are doing is posting about bands you like that every knew about 25 years ago you really aren't providing useful information.
well thats like your opinion mahn
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Here goes in no order, stuff still being listened to (i.e. Cornershop, Dwight Yoakum), some notable singles/EPs that need to be listed (Kylie, Diazpora)
Rock/Pop
Bev Lee Harling - Barefoot in the Kitchen
The Moons - Fables of History
Cliff Hillis - Dream Good
The World Record - Freeway Special
Shoes - Ignition
Milo Greene - Milo Greene
Jets Overhead - Boredom & Joy
The Stars Explode - Between the Lines
The dBs - Falling Off The Sky
Tim Burgess - Oh No I Love You
The Heartbreaks - Funtimes (honorable mention - album is a collection of their early singles)
The Primitives - Echos and Rhymes
Alto Verde - Paper Clips
Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
The Heavy - The Glorious Dead
Saint Etienne - Words and Music
Soul/Funk
The Red Inspectors - Are We The Red Inspectors, Are We?
Third Coast Kings - S/T
The Bamboos - Medicine Man
Calibro 35 - Any Resemblance To Real Persons or Actual Facts Is Purely Coincidental
Hannah William & The Tastemakers - A Hill of Feathers
The Monophonics - In Your Brain
Kyle Auldist - Still Life
Menahan Street Band - The Crossing
John Boutte - All About Everything
Elikeh - Between 2 Worlds
The Cactus Channel - Haptics
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
The Funk Ark - High Noon
Lee Fields and the Expressions - Faithful Man
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Sadly, I don't have much of a list as I havent listened to a whole lot of new music.
The Dandy Warhols - This Machine
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Maximo Park - National Health
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My fifteen favorite electronic and rock releases.
Dark Electronic/Witch House
http://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/hexenjagd-dragged-to-hell-end-of-2012-mix/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/hexenjagd-dragged-to-hell-end-of-2012-mix/)
oOoOO - Our Loving Is Hurting Us EP
SANGO x ZandSHE - ☯
Prosymna - CDR
VEINS - Us & Them EP
VS//YOU?HCLUB - WAVES
Bruxa - Victimeyez
Image Circle - Mecca
Evian Christ - Kings And Them
∆AIMON - FLATLINER
Koda - Night Rager EP
Purity Ring - Shrines
BLVCK CEILING - SWAN SONGS
WIFE - Stoic EP
Ronobe - Something to Die For
Unison - Unison
rock
http://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/killsaly-2012-mixtape/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/killsaly-2012-mixtape/)
Chester Endersby Gwazda - Shroud
Holy Wave - Knife Hits
You Walk Through Walls - Destroyed Places EP
Never - Never
Marriages - Kitsune
the Vandelles - Strange Girls Don't Cry
SPC ECO - Dark Notes
Swans - the Seer
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Jacober - Water Karaoke
Dads - American Radass
Ringo Deathstarr - Mauve
Two Inch Astronaut - Red Pancake and the Dark Energy
Sick Weapons - Birthday Gift
Roomrunner - Super Vague
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There were only maybe six albums this year that passed the "I'll listen to this enough times that the artist deserves my money for it" test. Not that it was a bad year for music, I just didn't get into much new stuff and went to more shows as opposed to bought music.
That being said, of the albums I bought this year my favorite was...
Future of the Left - the plot against common sense
this was my album of the year as well
astonishingly good - taut, brutal, melodic, funny
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My Top 10:
10] Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid: M.A.A.D City
9] DIIV - Oshin
8] The Men - Open Your Heart
7] Foxygen - Take the Kids Off Broadway
6] Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Self-Titled
5] Tame Impala - Lonerism
4] Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
3] JAPANDROIDS - Celebration Rock
2] Hot Chip - In Our Heads
1] Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
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Caspian - "Waking Season"
Lymbyc Systym - "Symbolyst"
Beach House - "Bloom"
Father John Misty - "Fear Fun"
Grimes - "Visions"
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Adding the Dry The River - Shallow River to my favorite albums of last year, it's totally gotten under my skin the last couple days.
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Adding the Dry The River - Shallow River to my favorite albums of last year, it's totally gotten under my skin the last couple days.
ive been listening to it too this week!