Best music of 2012

Any genre, the stuff you chaps have found worthy in your travels. Maybe post a clip from youtube/soundcloud as an example, as long as it's kosher.

( Sure it's only the 18/09 .. but it's nearer to the end of the year than the beginning and i'd like some guidance on what you've thought nice given my tendency to not look anything up. Plus in before troon.)

always down to share favorites.

My 3 favorite albums this year (not in order)

Lone - Galaxy Garden

Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics

Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful

Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful - track 2

Reminds me of sonic youth. Probably the 'dream about you all the time.. etc." which Moore sung in whatever that song was.

http://youtu.be/xm305AUIoEo

Yeasayer - Fragrant World

http://youtu.be/RrwUkEMmKZY

Disappears - Pre Language

http://youtu.be/1dO07-O6vUg

WHY? - Sod in the Seed EP

http://youtu.be/fwm1R2GZXX0

Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics

http://youtu.be/JrTSmzrbpjw

Violens - True

http://youtu.be/IYKQXUYQ9ks

http://youtu.be/Q_b-UlkzoFU

Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrome Vol. 1

http://youtu.be/rUCPBzZuC6w

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse

http://youtu.be/-FSTSlyB9sQ

The Money Store

El-P's album Cancer for Cure - Best overall 2012 release I've heard so far.

Robert Glasper's Black Radio is also worth checking out, even if you don't listen to a lot of jazz.

favorites at the moment:

actress - r.i.p.

nick edwards - plekzationz

cygnus - cybercity z-ro

scald rougish - auen ansici / bardachd

helm - impossible symmetry

honorable mentions:

team doyobi - digital music vol 1

plkzfx (ekoplekz) - latent acid

thomas koner - novaya zemlya

mika vainio - fe3o4

shackleton - drawbar organ eps (not a huge fan of 'music for the quiet hour')

keith fullerton whitman - generators and occlusions

pye corner audio - black mill tapes vol 3

outer space - akashic record and outer space II

also, there is still some exciting stuff coming from amhain, cygnus, pye corner audio, emeralds, and i'm keeping my fingers crossed for space dimension controller's lp

  On 9/17/2012 at 7:52 PM, ambermonk said:

El-P's album Cancer for Cure - Best overall 2012 release I've heard so far.

 

Robert Glasper's Black Radio is also worth checking out, even if you don't listen to a lot of jazz.

As a warning, a cancer for cure youtube clip, turned off my firewall and did other strange things.

jason lescalleet - songs about nothing

michael pisaro - fields have ears (6)

skogen - ist gefallen in den schnee

boris hauf sextet - next delusion

cassegrain & tinman - carnal

ariel pink - mature themes

deerhoof - breakup song

house shoes - let it go

ouija boys - NOT funny

en - already gone

these i've been compelled to play over and over.

KA - Grief Pedigree

Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy

Shackleton - Music... / Drawbar...

Burial - Kindred

Lone - Galaxy Garden

Four Tet - Pink

Actress - R.I.P.

Shackleton - Music For Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EP's

Holy Other - Held

Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton

Slugabed _ Time Team

Death Grips _ The Money Store

Pusher _ Ufabulum

Walsh _ Back 2 the High Life

and I haven't listened as much but we'll see if these end up joining the ranks:

Grizzly Bear _ Sheilds

Holy Other _ Held

edit:

OHfuck, new Walsh EP.. This guy is turning into one of my favorite artists to follow

http://walshmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pure-mood

  On 9/17/2012 at 5:37 PM, delet... said:

Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful - track 2

 

Reminds me of sonic youth. Probably the 'dream about you all the time.. etc." which Moore sung in whatever that song was.

 

http://youtu.be/xm305AUIoEo

I think it's a cover of another band's song from that same era. I totally forget what it's called though.

That album is really damn spooky though, and really brilliant. There's nothing else quite like it.

here it is

  On 9/17/2012 at 8:10 PM, delet... said:

  On 9/17/2012 at 7:52 PM, ambermonk said:

El-P's album Cancer for Cure - Best overall 2012 release I've heard so far.

 

Robert Glasper's Black Radio is also worth checking out, even if you don't listen to a lot of jazz.

 

As a warning, a cancer for cure youtube clip, turned off my firewall and did other strange things.

Uh oh..I apologize, for I did not foresee that outcome

I find Spotify is the most reliable source for searching for music lately. It's free, and I've yet to see adverse effects on my computer since I installed it. That might be a better alternative.

Others have mentioned some of my faves this year already, so:

Datassette - People Without Mouths

Deepchord - Sommer

Deepchord Presents Echospace - Silent World

Greeen Linez - Things That Fade

Konx-om-Pax - Regional Surrealism

Silent Harbour - S/T

I could give a list including a few mentioned but something that first comes to mind is an album which, for me, came out of nowhere and it's very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSG0hn3VaPg

The Micronaut - Friedfisch LP

My fav ones so far :

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse

Jodey Kendrick - Plus 10

Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

can't wait for Tame Impala's Lonerism and Flaming Lips's The Terror.

STURQEN - Raia http://sturqen.bandcamp.com/album/raia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJswjqibxM&hd=1

Actress - R.I.P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_AdHjYDno

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Occlusions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznEPffAyGQ&hd=1

Claro Intelecto - Reform Club

Deepchord - Sommer

Grit - As I Look To The Sky From The Surface Of The Water

  On 9/17/2012 at 8:09 PM, grue said:

 

scald rougish - auen ansici / bardachd

 

 

 

 

This. If you don't know you're fucking up.

Swans - The Seer (most likely going to be my AOTY)

Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ADBA

Ahab - The Giant

Burial - Kindred EP

Death Grips - NLDW (not that impressed but i'll definitely remember all the hype and talk surrounding the album)

So far, I've actually been fairly disappointed with 2012. New albums from some of my favorite artists haven't lived up to their previous releases

so far Mr. 76ix's Experiment Four, Ufabulum and Blawan

Flying lotus - until the quiet comes

Four tet - pink

Actress - rip

For the most part this will be my year end list. I haven't heard the new Olan Mill or Pausal yet, which may take spots in the list. Also waiting on Taylor Deupree's album, and there's probably a couple I'm forgetting that have yet to be released.

Albums:

Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton

Deepchord Presents Echospace - Silent World OST

Simon Scott - Below Sea Level

Retina.it - Descending Into Crevasse

Relmic Statute - Untitled

Tape Loop Orchestra - The Word On My Lips Is Your Name / The Burnley Brass Band Plays On In My Heart

Panabrite - The Baroque Atrium

Georges Vert - An Electric Mind

Evan Caminiti - Night Dust

Christian Fennesz - Aun

Kane Ikin - Sublunar

EPs:

Stephan Mathieu - Coda (For WK)

Tape Loop Orchestra - The Killer In The Rain

Jon Brooks - Dieter Rams - Reconstructions

Kane Ikin - Contrail

Sensate Focus - 10

Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples - More Circulations

Synkro - Broken Promises

Compilations:

VA - Air Texture Volume II

VA - Lost In The Humming Air (Music Inspired By Harold Budd)