***RM Top Albums of 2012*** deadline Jan 27

[conoalias]

long-ass list

Some of that stuff doesn't suck.

Anyway, my list:

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1 Luke Roberts - The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport (spotify)
2 Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (spotify)
3 Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon (spotify)
4 The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald) (bandcamp)
5 James Blackshaw - Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death (spotify)
6 Greg? Haines - Digressions
7 Jon Porras - Black Mesa (spotify)
8 witxes - Sorcery/Geography (bandcamp)
9 And Also The Trees - Hunter Not the Hunted
10 Talvihorros - And It Was So (spotify)
11 Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire
12 Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (bandcamp)
13 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (spotify)
14 Astrïd - High Blues
15 Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains (spotify)
16 From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide (spotify)
17 Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum of Human Darkness
18 The Alvaret Ensemble - s/t
19 Bosse-de-Nage - III (bandcamp)
20 Nadja - Dagdrøm (bandcamp)
21 Krallice - Years Past Matters (bandcamp)
22 The Bony King of Nowhere - s/t
23 Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
24 Matt Elliott - The Broken Man (spotify)
25 Gareth Dickson - Quite A Way Away (spotify)

And in no order:

Adversarial & Antediluvian - Initiated in Impiety As Mysteries
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony
Anoice - The Black Rain
Bastard Sapling - Dragged From Our Restless Trance
Bersarin Quartett - II
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Brasstronaut - Mean Sun
Carlton Melton - Photos of Photos
Christoph Berg - Paraphrases
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
Evan Caminiti - Dreamless Sleep
Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino & Oren Ambarchi - Imikuzushi
Hallock Hill - A Hem of Evening
L A N D - Night Within
Menace Ruine - Alight in Ashes
Mike Wexler - Dispossession
Myrninerest - "Johnn", Uttered Babylon
Paul Corley - Disquiet
Richard Skelton - Verse of Birds
Rome - Hell Money
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone
Sarin Smoke - Vent
Scythling - Smokefall
Storm Corrosion - s/t
The Cinematic Orchestra - The Cinematic Orchestra Presents In Motion #1
The Lost Rivers - Sin and Lostness
The Touré-Raichel Collective - The Tel-Aviv Session
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter
Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be
Zelienople - The World is a House on Fire

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[kreng]

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good idea on including links, especially for the obscure stuff. i'm gonna have to steal that idea when i post my list

[nyquillyn]

long-ass list

Some of that stuff doesn't suck.

Anyway, my list:

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1 Luke Roberts - The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport (spotify)
2 Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (spotify)
3 Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon (spotify)
4 The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald) (bandcamp)
5 James Blackshaw - Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death (spotify)
6 Greg? Haines - Digressions
7 Jon Porras - Black Mesa (spotify)
8 witxes - Sorcery/Geography (bandcamp)
9 And Also The Trees - Hunter Not the Hunted
10 Talvihorros - And It Was So (spotify)
11 Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire
12 Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (bandcamp)
13 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (spotify)
14 Astrïd - High Blues
15 Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains (spotify)
16 From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide (spotify)
17 Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum of Human Darkness
18 The Alvaret Ensemble - s/t
19 Bosse-de-Nage - III (bandcamp)
20 Nadja - Dagdrøm (bandcamp)
21 Krallice - Years Past Matters (bandcamp)
22 The Bony King of Nowhere - s/t
23 Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
24 Matt Elliott - The Broken Man (spotify)
25 Gareth Dickson - Quite A Way Away (spotify)

And in no order:

Adversarial & Antediluvian - Initiated in Impiety As Mysteries
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony
Anoice - The Black Rain
Bastard Sapling - Dragged From Our Restless Trance
Bersarin Quartett - II
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Brasstronaut - Mean Sun
Carlton Melton - Photos of Photos
Christoph Berg - Paraphrases
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
Evan Caminiti - Dreamless Sleep
Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino & Oren Ambarchi - Imikuzushi
Hallock Hill - A Hem of Evening
L A N D - Night Within
Menace Ruine - Alight in Ashes
Mike Wexler - Dispossession
Myrninerest - "Johnn", Uttered Babylon
Paul Corley - Disquiet
Richard Skelton - Verse of Birds
Rome - Hell Money
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone
Sarin Smoke - Vent
Scythling - Smokefall
Storm Corrosion - s/t
The Cinematic Orchestra - The Cinematic Orchestra Presents In Motion #1
The Lost Rivers - Sin and Lostness
The Touré-Raichel Collective - The Tel-Aviv Session
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter
Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be
Zelienople - The World is a House on Fire

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Thanks for all the links, cono! My day will be filled with new music.

[kreng]

OM - Advaitic Songs

Listening to this record right now, This should have been in my top25 somewhere, what a beast

[Birds in Hell]

OM - Advaitic Songs

Listening to this record right now, This should have been in my top25 somewhere, what a beast

Yeah, I really loved it.

[conoalias]

OM - Advaitic Songs

Listening to this record right now, This should have been in my top25 somewhere, what a beast

Yeah, I really loved it.

This is one I felt I should have liked more. I enjoyed it every time I heard it but it never reached the "what a beast" status.

[Kevin Davis]

1. Beach House - Bloom
2. Mynabirds, The - Generals
3. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Americana
4. Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
5. Brad Mehldau Trio - Ode
6. Brad Mehldau Trio - Where Do You Start
7. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
8. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
9. Calexico - Algiers
10. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
11. Bob Dylan - Tempest

And even though I found the album disappointing, I think my #1 track of the year was Killer Mike's "Reagan."

[mf]

final week

[Scott]

I didn't listen to a ton of new music this past year, but I played the hell out of these, especially the first three....

1. Lucero - Women & Work
2. Tim Barry - 40 Miler
3. Otis Gibbs - Harder Than Hammered Hell
4. Cory Branan - Mutt
5. Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

[mf]

i guess i just listened to metal this year.

1 . Cloudkicker - Fade (bandcamp) ( djent, progressive metal )
2 . Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage (stream) ( Progressive metal, technical death metal, groove metal )
3 . Baroness - Yellow and Green (bandcamp) ( Heavy metal, sludge metal, progressive metal )
4 . Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (youtube) ( Progressive metal, math metal, technical death metal )
5 . Meshuggah - Koloss (stream) ( Progressive metal, Djent )
6 . Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (youtube) ( hardcore, mathcore )
7 . High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis ("Fertile Green") ( Sludge metal, stoner metal, doom metal )
8 . Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy (bandcamp) ( Technical death metal )
9 . Murder Construct - Results (bandcamp) ( Deathgrind )
10 . Torche - Harmonicraft ("Walk It Off") ( Stoner metal, sludge metal )
11 . Samothrace - Reverence to Stone (bandcamp) ( Doom metal )
12 . Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph (stream) ( Black metal )
13 . Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity ("Kingdom of Tyrants") ( Deathgrind )
14 . Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes (partial stream) ( post-metal, crust, hardcore )
15 . Farsot - Insects (youtube) ( Black metal, progressive black metal )
16 . Ahab - the Giant ("Antarctica The Polymorphess") ( Funeral doom )
17 . Blut Aus Nord - 777 Cosmosophy (bandcamp) ( Black metal, avant-garde, ambient )
18 . Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay ("Bleeding the Pigs") ( Post-metal, Sludge metal, doom )
19 . Lamb of God - Resolution ("Ghost Walking") ( Groove metal )
20 . Soundgarden - King Animal
21 . Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering (bandcamp) ( Grindcore, mathcore, sludge metal )
22 . Deftones - Koi No Yokan
23 . Old Man Gloom - NO (bandcamp) ( Sludge, post-metal )
24 . Job For A Cowboy - Demonocracy ("Tarnished Gluttony") ( Death metal, deathcore )
25 . OM - Advaitic Songs ("State of Non-Return") ( stoner metal, ambient, psychedelic )


No order:
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live from Alabama
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Ancestors - In Dreams & Time
Krallice - Years Past Matter
The Sword - Apocryphon
NOFX - Self Entitled
Mars Volta (The) - Noctourniquet
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live from Alabama
ISIS - Temporal
Kylesa - From the Vaults 1
Melvins - Bulls and the Bees EP
Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis EP
Bosse-de-Nage - III

[psychobain]

1)Murder by Death - Bitter Drink Bitter Moon
2)Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist
3)Max Richter - Vivaldi: Four Seasons (Recomposed)
4)The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
5)Breakbot - By Your Side
6)The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

[i got bugs]

chris robinson brotherhood - big moon ritual
moe - what happened to the la las
chris robinson brotherhood - the magic door
tame impala - lonerism
the sword - apocryphon
dmb - away from the world
widespread panic - wood
jeff the brotherhood - hypnotic nights
soundgarden - king animal
deftones - koi no yokan
japandroids - celebration rock
mt carmel - real women
aesop rock - skelethon
green day - uno
kendrick lamar - good kid, maad city
dirty ghosts - metal moon
roc marciano - reloaded

[super nintendo chalmers]

I really like the Neurosis record.

[washing machine]

Fellas, I think that Lee Ranaldo record is finally clicking with me.

[Birds in Hell]

Fellas, I think that Lee Ranaldo record is finally clicking with me.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Fellas, I think that Lee Ranaldo record is finally clicking with me.

I need to check that out still, he opened for someone we saw this past year, i think wilco, and it was a pretty good set

[washing machine]

The melodies were never the problem, but I'd always found it too crowded. The flat production wasn't doing it any favors. But the more I listen and pick out individual instrumental things going on, the more I like it.

[Norah]

Fellas, I think that Lee Ranaldo record is finally clicking with me.

I need to check that out still, he opened for someone we saw this past year, i think wilco, and it was a pretty good set

Yeah, I saw him open for Wilco. The playing was great but there were some god awful lyrics in there.

[washing machine]

As fun as the little stoned thought snippets on something like Skip Tracer or Hey Joni are, I've never thought that Lyrics were Lee's forte.