Very satisfied with the new Crystal Castles and Swans albums.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38552795]since the year is coming swiftly to a close... and there's pretty much nothing else coming out this year, post your favourites. :)
[editline]22nd November 2012[/editline]
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Bish Bosch isn't out yet though?
This is always the time of year I remember all of the stuff I meant to listen to but never got around to. I'll probably have a 2012 marathon pretty soon.
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Didn't this come out in 2011? I was hoping they would release the full length this year but so far it's not looking like it.
[QUOTE=rokknroll4;38589493]Didn't this come out in 2011? I was hoping they would release the full length this year but so far it's not looking like it.[/QUOTE]
Oh shit, you're right. My bad :v:
They put out a new song the other day. Can't wait for the full length album.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2KTtWBEGrU[/url]
Media tags aren't working for some reason.
[video=youtube;oqC1F5Sn5Fo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqC1F5Sn5Fo[/video]
Igorrr is fucking incredible, so this could totally end up being aoty for me.
My (generic) top 4 aotys right now.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2YGiW.png[/img]
This will probably change when I go through my list of like 25 albums that I still need to listen to (and re-listen) from this year. These four just stick out as the best in my mind right now, even though there were a lot of albums I loved from this year. I'll make an extended list later on.
AOTY 2012
Glocca Morra - Just Married
Death Grips - NO LOVE DEEP WEB
Swans - The Seer
Unsane - Wreck
Loma Prieta - I.V.
Death Grips - The Money Store
Dads - American Radass (This Is Important)
Pity Sex - Dark World
Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
Brighter Arrows - Division And What It Is To Abide
Swans - We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head
Captain Murphy - Duality
not really in any order but there were all good
[editline]2nd December 2012[/editline]
Glocca Morra is my favourite out of those though.
[QUOTE=kitteh-nator;38674633]
Swans - The Seer
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if you liked this, listen to Scott Walker's new album.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38678630]if you liked this, listen to Scott Walker's new album.[/QUOTE]
This, so hard
Just finished my first listen through, and my god, it is incredible
I'll definitely have to check that out, I've been meaning to check out The Drift for a while too...
I have actually yet to listen to the NO LOVE DEEP WEB but I prefer Exmilitary over Money Store. Stupid asking this still, but is NLDW worth a listen?
I like No Love Deep Web more then The Money Store.
alright I was hoping so. I dunno, Money Store just never clicked for me.
I mean I like The Money Store, but it didn't grab me like Exmilitary or NLDW.
I always like making these. I'll probably change this through-out the month though
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/2012AOTY.jpg[/img]
This took a while, but here it is, my list of favorites in order, and if you click on the album art it links you to my favorite song of that album.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0"][img]http://i.imgur.com/nKHuV.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://thebandmake.bandcamp.com/track/axis"][img]http://i.imgur.com/04Gay.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUysiCX-XZQ"][img]http://i.imgur.com/a72J4.png[/img][/URL]
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c8Aeq7QTA"][img]http://i.imgur.com/1yOVr.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://horseback.bandcamp.com/track/oblivion-eaters"][img]http://i.imgur.com/PvTOE.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEH_LSL4rVw"][img]http://i.imgur.com/n5XMn.png[/img][/URL]
[URL="http://thebandmake.bandcamp.com/track/returning-to-the-ruins-of-my-birthplace-2"][img]http://i.imgur.com/EdBAU.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://horseback.bandcamp.com/track/ahriman"][img]http://i.imgur.com/Yn4wz.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKMibrA71LQ"][img]http://i.imgur.com/Rc6A5.png[/img]
[/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sticXkHxZC4"][img]http://i.imgur.com/glgHo.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26hqZqX0bI"][img]http://i.imgur.com/c1Xrw.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://open.spotify.com/track/0Mi1VlONXU0e8K94zXSDqt"][img]http://i.imgur.com/8kGYQ.png[/img][/URL]
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FSTSlyB9sQ"][img]http://i.imgur.com/MawCx.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwGs96-s_I"][img]http://i.imgur.com/WJcOt.png[/img][/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsjmYpkHJBk"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pSdCS.png[/IMG][/URL]
Tears off of the Max Payne 3 soundtrack is probably one of the best songs from this year. It's fucking great.
I think my top 5 favourites would be -
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (finally got a copy as well as getting a copy of the Drift)
Swans - The Seer
Grimes - Visions
David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant
This year has really been a good year for that kind of dark, dissonant weird music and I'm really happy about it. Also packaging! Every single one of these albums has excellent presentation which is really interesting and unique and I'm really happy about that.
Nice, Love This Giant
Everyone seemed to dislike it but I think they made a really interesting mix
Who disliked it, I didn't think anyone did really
I'm going to see it live in January and rather enjoyed it
Oh guess it got a 77 on metacritic, so pretty decent reviews
For some reason I got the perception that it was poorly recieved
The album I was waiting for came out a few weeks ago. Crystal Castles III
I think it is their best work so far and sounds different to the previous 2 albums.
[IMG]http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/09/crystal-castles-iii-608x608.jpg[/IMG]
and Probably my favourite song off it is Kerosene.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2QIJdtgiU[/url]
But then I listen to another song and think, "Nope. this one is."
New STARFUCKER next year called Miracle Mile
[img]http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/shared/uploads/photos/06741_prc-248estore.jpg[/img]
Reptilians was fucking great so I'm pretty stoked on this one.
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Let's see what the man was like in 2012, he recorded this album at the age of 92...
It'll be his last recordings assuming he didn't do more after this.
[editline]12th December 2012[/editline]
listening to it now... okay wow
Well I think we've got a grasp on what everyone liked this year, but what did you guys hate? or get really disappointed by
I gotta give most disappointing album to Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor 2: Part 1
Lasers was shit and I didn't really expect anything, but it somehow managed to disappoint me either way. I guess I was just kind of depressed that Lupe went from clever music with great production on his first two albums to preachy, uncreative songs with shit production with this
In terms of straight up hate, still gonna have to give it to Lace Up by MGK. Just utter garbage.
For some reason I didn't have a lot of major disappointments from this year. Most of the albums from artists that I like that didn't live up to expectations ended up being mostly good, just not as good as I hoped (e.g. the new Converge which I actually really liked but for some reason I expected it to live up to Axe To Fall).
Most of the albums from this year that I didn't like were from artists I hadn't previously listened to, or didn't really have expectations for.
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