so... we are half way through 2012...

[kreutz2112]

suck it.

1. El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
2. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
3. John Talabot - fin
4. Gangrene – Vodka & Ayahuaska
5. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
6. Burial – Kindred EP
7. Liars – WIXIW
8. Death Grips – The Money Store
9. Dave Aju – Heirlooms
10. Oh No – Ohnomite
11. Maya Jane Coles – DJ Kicks
12. Quakers - Quakers
13. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
14. Beach House – Bloom
15. Actress – R.I.P.

Edit: I should mention that these are the ONLY albums I have listened to this year. I have tons more listening to do.

[TallGuyCM]

Not quite halfway, but whatevs. I love these threads.

1. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
2. Liars – WIXIW
3. Sigur Ros – Valtari
4. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
5. Beach House – Bloom
6. Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One
7. Ceremony – Zoo
8. The Men – Open Your Heart
9. Ambalance – Cokewave EP
10. Blondes – Blondes

[nosurprises12]

In alphabetical order:

Actress - R.I.P
Blondes - Blondes
Burial - Kindred EP
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Death Grips - The Money Store
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Liars - WIXIW
Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
The Men - Open Your Heart
P.S. I Love You - Death Dreams
Quakers - Quakers
Shackleton – Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs
John Talabot - Fin
Voices from the Lake – Voices from the Lake

[Gribbz]

Not quite halfway, but whatevs. I love these threads.

1. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
2. Liars – WIXIW
3. Sigur Ros – Valtari
4. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
5. Beach House – Bloom
6. Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One
7. Ceremony – Zoo
8. The Men – Open Your Heart
9. Ambalance – Cokewave EP
10. Blondes – Blondes

Surprised Spiritualized didn't make the cut.

[theklein25]

Not halfway through just yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[dorkfish]

Chromatics - Kill for Love
Death Grips – The Money Store
Liars – WIXIW
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Mount Carmel - Real Women

[bmack86]

So far....

1. Liars - WIXIW
2. Screaming Females - Ugly
3. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
4. The Men - Open Your Heart
5. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
6. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
7. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
8. Liberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
9. Mike Wexler - Dispossession
10. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

I still haven't listened to the Death Grips, Beach House or Sigur Ros. I need to give Lotus Plaza, Chromatics and Blondes more time.

Brad, tell me about Mount Carmel

[citizenerased]

Beach House - Bloom
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh
Céu - Caravana Sereia Bloom
Pond - Beards, Wives, Denim
Metric - Synthetica
Grimes - Visions
Dr. Dog - Be The Void
Chromatics - Kill For Love

[IceyHotshot]

The ordering is rough, but this is what I have so far:

1. The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now
2. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
3. Chromatics - Kill for Love
4. Fire! with Oren Ambarchi - In The Mouth A Hand
5. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
6. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
7. Sigur Rós - Valtari
8. The Flaming Lips - Heady Fwends
9. From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide
10. Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Lead
11. Mina Tindle - Taranta
12. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
13. Burial - Kindred EP
14. Chris Corsano - Cut
15. Horse Feathers - Cynic's New Year
16. Willamette - Always in Postscript
17. Orbital - Wonky
18. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi - Imikuzushi
19. Danny Clay - When the Curtains of Night are Pinned Back By the Stars
20. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
21. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
22. M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion
23. Beach House - Bloom
24. Sonitus Eco - It Is Loneliness That Makes the Loudest Noise
25. Demdike Stare - Elemental Parts 3 (Rose) & 4 (Iris)
26. Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire
27. Father Murphy - Anyway Your Children Will Deny It
28. Ital - Hive Mind
29. Death Grips - The Money Store
30. Strië - Õhtul

[Riggins33]

Pretty good list virgin.

[wmgaretjax]

dunno... but the first 15 I thought of were:

Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
Ben Vida - Esstends
Joe Colley - Lonely Microphone
NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol.I
Dolphins Into The Future - Canto Arquipélago
Billy Gomberg - Waiting In Poor Lighting
Sewer Election - Vittra Sonder
Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Vanity Fair
Nathan McLaughlin - The Refrigerator Is Emotional
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mark Leckey - Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
Eric Lanham - Sincere Interruption
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Ákos Rózmann - 12 Stationer VI
Liars - WIXIW

[dorkfish]

Brad, tell me about Mount Carmel

I could write a long-winded explanation, but I think you can figure them out based on their choice of album cover:

[GolfWang]

I've listened to an insane amount of music this year, I could probably do a top 50 but no one wants to see that shit.

1. Future - Pluto
2. Mina Tindle - Taranta
3. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
4. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
5. Dr. John - Locked Down
6. Ab-Soul - Control System
7. Odd Future - The OF Tape Vol. 2
8. Lambchop - Mr. M
9. Liars - WIXIW
10. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
11. Django Django - Django Django
12. Jack White - Blunderbuss
13. John Talabot - Fin
14. Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
15. Beach House - Bloom
16. Don Trip - Guerrilla
17. SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of SpaceGhostPurrp
18. Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
19. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
20. Shady Blaze - The Grind, Hustle & Talent

[Miroir Noir]

I do alphabetical half-way through the year:

Beach House - Bloom
Chairlift - Something
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Liars - WIXIW
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
The Men - Open Your Heart
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Tanlines - Mixed Emotions

I've only had the Walkmen and Sigur Ros for a week now . . . still need to track down a copy of that Screaming Females record.

It's a tossup between Chromatics and Japandroids for my absolute favorite so far. Two very different records by acts that emphasize very differing aspects of my taste.

[BlackSwan]

In no particular order...

Asa & Stumbleine - Your Secret EP
Burial - Kindred EP
Volor Flex - My Story
Clubroot - III MMXII
Desolate - Celestial Light Beings
Ghostek - Easy Changes EP
Nocow & Hmot - Lost In Taiga
Galimatias - Luna Soul EP
Demrus - Call of Mist Garage EP
Swarms - Low Sun EP

[SlowMotionApocalypse]

The Hangmen East Of Western
Boheme Follow The Freedom
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
Lana Del Rey Born To Die
Van Halen A Different Kind Of Truth
Prima Donna Bless This Mess
The Toy Dolls The Album After the Last One
Neon Trees Picture Show
Saint Vitus Lillie: F-65
Best Coast The Only Place

[Riggins33]

Neon Trees, Lana Del Rey, is dis a joke?? probably is, dis checkin.... word

[That70sdesperado]

So Far (Though I have tons more albums I still need to listen too):

John Talabot- Fin
Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
Grimes- Visions
El-P- Cancer 4 Cure
Death Grips- The Money Store
Japandroids- Celebration Rock
Schoolboy Q- Habits and Contradictions
Joyce Manor- Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
Lower Dens- Nootropics
Screaming Females- Ugly

[Pea]

Your claim in the thread title is really fucking with my OCD. Couldn't wait until July 1st?

Oh well. These are some of my favorites so far...

Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Ame
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Andrew Bird - Break it Yourself
John Talabot - Fin
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Niki & the Dove - Instinct
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Kent - Jag Ar Inte Radd For Morkret
Alex Winston - King Con
Gossip - A Joyful Noise
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Death Grips - The Money Store
Exitmusic - Passage

[bmack86]

Lsat year someone started this thread in May. We're getting closer at least.

[SoulDischarge]

I've listened to the Grimes album more than anything else released this year, but I probably wouldn't put it near #1 for the year. I've liked a lot more albums this year so far than in the past couple, but I need to absorb them all for at least another month to begin ranking them.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Lsat year someone started this thread in May. We're getting closer at least.

I am pretty sure I started it in June last year as well haha

[TallGuyCM]

I am pretty sure I started it in June last year as well haha

Almost, but not quite.

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showt...y-Through-2011

[cutterbutter]

You only had to wait an hour and half more Drinkey to be correct in the future

[wmgaretjax]

If any Oren Ambarchi related project should be listed it should be the Alan Lamb Wired Open Day pieces... just sayin...

[IceyHotshot]

If any Oren Ambarchi related project should be listed it should be the Alan Lamb Wired Open Day pieces... just sayin...

Can you provide more info on this? The only thing I can find is a record from 2009. Definitely interested in hearing this.

[Andrew 619]

Ab soul- Control system

/thread

[wmgaretjax]

Can you provide more info on this? The only thing I can find is a record from 2009. Definitely interested in hearing this.

the record isn't from 2009. it's the original "performances" (as far as I know): http://www.discogs.com/Alan-Lamb-Gar.../master/440602

[IceyHotshot]

Ah, thanks. Looks like I'll have to get this.

[ods..]

ughhhhhhhhhh this was tough. still so much to get thru and fully digest. i love so much music from this year already



1. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
2. Liars - WIXIW
3. Schoolboy Q – Habits and Contradictions
4. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
5. Ab-Soul – Control System
6. John Talabot – ƒin
7. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
8. Grimes – Visions
9. The Men – Open Your Heart
10. Chromatics – Kill for Love
11. Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One
12. Ilyas Ahmed – With Endless Fire
13. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
14. Mirroring – Foreign Body
15. Screaming Females – Ugly
16. Shifted – Crossed Paths
17. Future – Pluto
18. Death Grips – The Money Store
19. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
20. Vtgnike- Meowchi
21. Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society
22. Voices from the Lake – Voices from the Lake
23. Sigur Ros - Valtari
24. LIL UGLY MANE – MISTA THUG ISOLATION
25. Willamette – Always in Postscript