The Coachella Message Board's Top Albums of 2012

[cutterbutter]

1. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
2. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Ty Segall - Twins
5. Beach House - Bloom
6. Celebration Rock - Japandroids
7. Grizzly Bear - Shields
8. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
10. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now
11. blink-182 - Dogs Eating Dogs
12. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
13. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
14. Sigur Ros - Valtari
15. Jack White - Blunderbuss
16. alt-J - An Awesome Wave
17. Bob Mould - Silver Age
18. Quakers - Quakers
19. The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
20. Four Tet - Pink
21. Green Day - Uno Dos Tre
22. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
23. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City
24. The xx - Coexist
25. Metz - Metz

[mountmccabe]

01. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
02. Clock Opera - Ways to Forget
03. Fiona Apple - Idler's Wheel...
04. Various - Just Tell Me That You Want Me (Fleetwood Mac tribute album)
05. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
06. Swans - The Seer
07. Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
08. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
09. Killer Mike - RAP Music
10. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
11. The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now
12. Screaming Females - Ugly
13. Diiv - Oshin
14. Swearin’ - Swearin’
15. Liars - WIXIW
16. Weapon - Embers and Revelations
17. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
18. Sigur Ros - Valtari
19. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
20. Fanfarlo - Rooms Filled with Light
21. David Byrne & St Vincent - Love this Giant
22. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You
23. Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
24. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
25. Mike Wexler - Disposession

[roberto73]

Something like this, although there are a few things I want to listen to once more, which means the last 5-10 are still in play.

1. Clock Opera – Ways to Forget
2. Yellow Ostrich – Strange Land
3. Toy – S/T
4. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
5. Paul Buchanan – Mid Air
6. Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
7. The Wedding Present – Valentina
8. The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
9. Cat Power – Sun
10. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
11. The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
13. Tame Impala – Lonerism
14. Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts in Snow
15. Hey Sholay – ((O))
16. Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
17. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
18. Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky's Edge
19. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
20. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
21. BEAK> – >>
22. Fang Island – Major
23. Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
24. The Men – Open Your Heart
25. Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense

[Pee Wee Herman's Hermits]

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
4. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
6. Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu
7. Leonard Cohen - Old Times
8. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
10. Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithful Man
11. Jack White - Blunderbuss
12. The Raveonettes - Observator
13. Phèdre - Phèdre
14. The Xx - Coexist
15. Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
16. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
17. Four Tet - Pink
18. Carla Morrison - Dejenme Llorar
19. Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
20. Meshell Ndegeocello - Pour une Âme Souveraine
21. Allah-Las - Allah-Las
22. Grimes - Visions
23. Santigold - Master Of My Make Believe
24. Miike Snow - Happy To You
25. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

[citizenerased]

1. Purity Ring - Shrines
2. Tame Impala - Lonerism
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Beach House - Bloom
5. Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh
6. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
7. Grimes - Visions
8. Muse - The 2nd Law
9. Chromatics - Kill For Love
10. The xx - Coexist
11. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
12. Liars - WIXIW
13. Metric - Synthetica
14. Freelance Whales - Diluvia
15. Cat Power - Sun
16. Miike Snow - Happy To You
17. Céu - Caravana Sereia Bloom
18. T.E.E.D - Trouble
19. Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
20. Crystal Castles - III
21. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
22. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
23. Pond - Beards, Wives, Denim
24. Azealia Banks - Fantasea
25. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

[icedKeg]

I'm extending the deadline through the weekend and the new year. Final lists are due by Wednesday, January 2nd. Keep them coming!

[xxxxxxxxxx]

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3. Metz - Metz
4. Swans - The Seer
5. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
6. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
7. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
8. Ty Segall - Twins
9. Liars - WIXIW
10. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
11. Godspeed You! Black Emporer - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
12. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
13. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
14. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
15. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
16. Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast (Waste In Space)
17. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
18. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
19. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
20. The Walkmen - Heaven
21. The Evens - The Odds
22. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
23. Unsane - Wreck
24. Evoken - Atra Mors
25. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

[bmack86]

I like that list quite a bit.

[RotationSlimWang]

2. Yellow Ostrich – Strange Land

Glad to finally hear somebody mention this album. It was one of the things from a new artist I heard this year that caught my attention. I was amazed that fucking nobody on this board seemed to be mentioning Yellow Ostrich with all the other shit that gets sucked off around here.

[icedKeg]

Glad to finally hear somebody mention this album. It was one of the things from a new artist I heard this year that caught my attention. I was amazed that fucking nobody on this board seemed to be mentioning Yellow Ostrich with all the other shit that gets sucked off around here.

i'm pretty sure it was Drinkey who was bringing them up all year.

[RotationSlimWang]

My former roommate and collaboration partner did a pretty nifty remix of I Want Ur Love that I think is going to be appearing on an upcoming remix album or something. https://soundcloud.com/eat-digital/y...i-want-ur-love

[LickTheLizzard]

1.) Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
2.) Titus Andronicus – Local Business
3.) Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
4.) Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
5.) Beach House – Bloom
6.) Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
7.) Death Grips – The Money Store
8.) Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
9.) Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
10.) Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
11.) The Men – Open Your Heart
12.) Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
13.) Father John Misty – Fear Fun
14.) Death Grips – NO LOVE DEEP WEB
15.) Kendrick Lamar – good kid m.A.A.d city
16.) Liberteer – Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
17.) Purity Ring - Shrines
18.) Grizzly Bear - Shields
19.) The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
20.) Pangea – Killer Dreams EP
21.) Metz - Metz
22.) Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
23.) Toys That Kill – Fambly 42
24.) Moonface with Siinai – Heartbreaking Bravery
25.) Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired

[KC Accidental]

1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Purity Ring - Shrines
3. Sigur Ros - Valtari
4. Bad Books - II
5. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
6. Stars - The North
7. Alt -J - An Awesome Wave
8. El Ten Eleven - Transitions
9. Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
10. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
11. Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now
12. Pinback - Information Retrieved
13. Flume - Flume
14. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
15. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
16. Jon Talabot - Fin
17. Grimes - Visions
18. Metz - Metz
19. Minus The Bear - Infinity Overhead
20. Lymbyc System - Symbolyst
21. Beach House - Bloom
22. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
23. Twin Shadow - Confess
24. Four Tet - Pink
25. Titus Andronicus – Local Business
26. Chromatics - Kill For Love
27. The xx - Coexist

[boxofbox]

BOOOM!

1. NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol.I & II
2. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
3. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
4. Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages - Franges du Signe [Reissue]
5. Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind
6. Jeremih - Late Nights With Jeremih
7. Helm - Impossible Symmetry
8. Juicy J - "Bandz A Make Her Dance"
9. Gnod - "Shitting Through the Eye of a Needle in a Haystack"
10. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
11. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Occlusions - Real Time Music for Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer
12. Lee Gamble - Dutch Tvashtar Plumes
13. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
14. Container - LP
15. Mykki Blanco - "Wavvy"
16. Dome - 1-4+5 [Anthology]
17. Father John Misty - "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"
18. Perispirit - Spiritual Church Movement
19. Emptyset - Collapsed
20. T.I. - "Go Get It"
21. Blawan - His He She and She Hinge Finger [TIE] Long Distance Open Water Worker
22. Ricardo Donoso - Assimilating the Shadow
23. Holly Herndon - Movement
24. Akos Rozmann - 12 Stationer VI [Reissue]
25. Young Jeezy - "I Do (Remix)"
26. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
27. Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar [Reissue]
28. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
29. Concern - Misfortune
30. Jacques Brodier - Filtre De Réalité
31. Vessel - Order Of Noise
32. Powell - Body Music EP
33. Future - Pluto
34. Ike Yard - Ike Yard [Reissue]
35. SND & NHK - Split
36. Scuba - "Talk Torque"
37. Paul Birken & Freddy Fresh - Midwest Whippersnappers EP
38. Sympathy Nervous - Plastic Love [Reissue]
39. Grimes - Visions
40. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
41. Heatsick - Déviation
42. Bernard Parmegiani - L'oeil Ecoute/Dedans-Dehors [Reissue]
43. Samuel Kerridge - Auris Interna
44. Duke Dumont - "Street Walker" [TIE] "The Giver"
45. The Cleaners from Venus - The Cleaners from Venus Vol 1 [Anthology]
46. Bee Mask - Vaporware - Scanops
47. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
48. Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller II
49. Jesper Nordin - Pendants [Anthology]
50. Various Artists - L.I.E.S. presents American Noise Vol. 1
51. Liars - WIXIW
52. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependant And Happy
53. Reines d'Angleterre - Globe Et Dynastie
54. Perfume - "Spring of Life" [TIE] "Spending All My Time"
55. Various Artists - Traces One [Reissue Comp]
56. KW Griff - Club Constructions Vol. 3
57. Madteo - Noi No
58. Raglani - Real Colors Of The Physical World
59. SPACEGHOSTPURRP RVIDER KLVN - GOD OF BLACK GXX XX Ep Vol 1
60. Vatican Shadow – Iraqi Praetorian Guard
61. Kevin Drumm - Relief
62. Pete Swanson - Pro Style
63. S_W_Z_K - S_W_Z_K
64. Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing
65. Mike Shiflet - The Choir & The Army
66. Jessie Ware - Devotion
67. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
68. Eli Keszler - Catching Net [Partial Reissue]
69. John Maus - A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material [Anthology]
70. AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It EP
71. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe [Reissue]
72. Pachanga Boys - Girlcatcher
73. Le1f - DARK YORK
74. Jahiliyya Fields - Unicursal Hexagram
75. Decimus - 11
76. Ben Vida - esstends - esstends - esstends
77. Clouds - Tannhauser Acid Works I
78. Rrose - Wedge of Chastity
79. Agali ag Amoumine - Takamba LP
80. Tuff Sherm – Pharmacy EP
81. Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet - Grapes and Snakes
82. Bookworms - Love Triangles
83. EDMX - Cerberus
84. Huxley - "Let It Go"
85. Arca - Stretch 2
86. Meat Parade - Dissimulations
87. F.C. Judd - Electronics Without Tears [Anthology]
88. CUB - CU1/CU2 EP
89. Mac Demarco - 2
90. Robert Hampson - Signaux
91. Huerco S. - Untitled
92. Lil B The BasedGod - God's Father
93. Nate Young - Regression Vol 3 Other Days
94. Jeff Mills - Sequence A Restrospective of Axis Records [Anthology]
95. Todd Terje - "Inspector Norse"
96. Objekt - Cactus/Porcupine
97. Various Artists - Strange Passion: Explorations in Irish Post-Punk, DIY and Electronic Music '80-'83
98. Tommy Four Seven - Monad XIII
99. Demdike Stare - Elemental [pseudo-Anthology]
100. Various Artists - Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance - Industrial Post-Punk EBM Classics and Rarities '80-'88
101. PROSTITUTES - Psychedelic Black
102. MPIA3 - Your Orders
103. Viewlexx - (Bunker 3096) After Dark
104. The Compass Rose - The Simulation District
105. Grischa Lichtenberger - And. IV
106. G.O.O.D. Music - "Clique"
107. Kassel Jaeger - Deltas
108. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
109. Chief Keef - Finally Rich
110. Egisto Macchi - I Futuribili [Reissue]
111. Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman
112. Maggi Payne - Ahh-Ahh: Music For Ed Tannenbaum's Technological Feets '84-'87 [Reissue]
113. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
114. Various Artists - Music Minus Music (Compiled by Andy Votel)
115. Lorenzo Senni - Quantum Jelly
116. DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi [TIE] DJ Spinn - Teklife Vol. 2: What You Need Lit City Trax
117. Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung 6
118. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
119. Various Artists - Marees de Hauteurs Diverses
120. Various Artists - The African Guitar Box
121. Katy B - Danger EP
122. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
123. Metasplice - Topographical Interference
124. Swans - The Seer
125. Phase - Binary Opposition
126. LIL UGLY MANE - MISTA THUG ISOLATION
127. Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
128. Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour
129. Madalyn Merkey - Scent
130. Scald Rougish - Auen Ansici - Bardachd
131. Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet the Congos - Icon Give Thank - FRKWYS Vol. 9
132. Burial - Kindred EP
133. Metz - Metz
134. DJ Stingray 313 - F.T.N.W.O.
135. Gerry Read - Jummy
136. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
137. Shifted - Razors EP
138. George Fitzgerald - "Child"
139. Death Grips - The Money Store
140. Romare - Meditations On Afrocentrism
141. Kareem - Mesmer
142. Pop Winds - Earth to Friend
143. Slant Azymuth - Slant Azymuth
144. Triad God - NXB
145. Zbigniew Karkowski & Anton Lukoszevieze - Nerve Cell_0 - For Cello And Computer
146. Levon Vincent - Stereo Systems
147. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
148. Austin Cesear - Cruise Forever
149. Gabriel Saloman - Adhere
150. Jack Dixon - E + Find Shelter
151. No UFOs - MPC Tracks Vol I
152. Frak - Muzika Electronic
153. Sensate Focus - FOCUS5
154. Head Boggle - Headboggle
155. In Aeternam Vale - Dust Under Brightness [Reissue]
156. James Welsh - The Way EP
157. AnD - ADBF BNGD DST
158. John Talabot - ƒin
159. Lord Tang - Lord Tang
160. Dense & Pika - Bad Ink
161. Mark Fell - Sentielle Objectif Actualite
162. Marcel Dettmann - Range EP
163. ASC - Boundary Scan EP
164. Astor - Alcor
165. Albert Van Abbe - No Comment_0006
166. Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou - The Bariba Sound

[guedita]

Extend the deadline you jerk. Some of us will be nursing hangovers that last til the 4th.

[bmack86]

That just means your list will be more ambient and new age focused.

[wmgaretjax]

8. Juicy J - "Bandz A Make Her Dance"

Nice. No love for the Jakob Ullmann? Fucking love that record.

[TallGuyCM]

2012: the year that boxofbox out-wmgaretjax'd wmgaretjax

[wmgaretjax]

nah. fella does it every year. so much damn techno though... really struggling to catch up on all that shit. especially when all I want to do is listen to the Jam City and Madteo records.

[loomer]

1. Mirrorring - Foreign Body
2. Max Richter - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
5. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
6. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
7. Burial - Kindred EP
8. Tame Impala - Lonerism
9. Swans - The Seer
10. Beach House - Bloom

[ods..]

nah. fella does it every year. so much damn techno though... really struggling to catch up on all that shit. especially when all I want to do is listen to the Jam City and Madteo records.

This is how I feel too.... I'll be listening to 2012 stuff until the end of January I imagine.

I love those Jam City and Madteo records tho

[guedita]

The Jam City album was really great. I won't be ready to compile a well thought out list for a while, though. My picks probably won't significantly effect the collective though. I started listening to certain albums way too late this year.

[boxofbox]

Nice. No love for the Jakob Ullmann? Fucking love that record.

Hard to get into something so minimal, long and Morton Felmanny that wasn't on my radar until a few weeks ago. 2012 was the year of the shortest attention span yet.

[boxofbox]

as for jam city, I've listened to it a bit, it was definitely up for year-end list assessment, but I just don't "jam" with it like everyone else seems to. It's too present in the "I'm blatantly innovating a new techno genre" category and tends to come in as not close/weird enough to vaporwave as it could for my liking.

[boxofbox]

btw. any list w/o "bandz..." is not an honest list; at least not in the Atlanta-area.

I mean c'mon: "These chicks clapping, and they ain't using hands", "She stripper-pole her income", "I don't tip, I pay bills, bitches call me buffalo"

dylan was a hack!

[wmgaretjax]

Hard to get into something so minimal, long and Morton Felmanny that wasn't on my radar until a few weeks ago. 2012 was the year of the shortest attention span yet.

yeah, i've listened to it probably two dozen times now. i tend to pay attention to everything that editions rz puts out these days. very feldmany, but more elaborate in most places.

as for the jam city, the criticisms are fair. i like that it stays arms length away from vaporwave. its also just so damn danceable.

[roberto73]

btw. any list w/o "bandz..." is not an honest list; at least not in the Atlanta-area.

I mean c'mon: "These chicks clapping, and they ain't using hands", "She stripper-pole her income", "I don't tip, I pay bills, bitches call me buffalo"

dylan was a hack!

I live in the Atlanta area and I have no idea who the fuck this is.

[bballarl]

I had a hard time remembering what came out this year. This is my top 5...the rest is other stuff I enjoyed.

1. Terry Malts - Killing Time
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Metz - Metz
4. Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Ty Segall - Twins
Allo Darlin' - Capricornia
The Walkmen - Heaven
Lower - Walk on Heads
Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
Krallice - Years Past Matter
John Talabot - Fin
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Grizzly Bear - Shields

[boxofbox]

I live in the Atlanta area and I have no idea who the fuck this is.

you obviously are not going to the right strip clubs.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

i have no clue where to put this because you all are spazzed out with top this and that...

some reissues I loved from this year:

Dome - 1-4 + 5 (Wire spinoff industrial/experimental rock)
Egisto Macchi ‎– I Futuribili (abstract Italian post-orchestral music)
Eliane Radigue - Feedback Works (minimal sound art)
Etat Brut ‎– Mutations Et Prothèses (early 80s noise rock)
Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips - We Are None of Us (noise sound art)
Gareth Williams & Marie Currie - Flaming Tunes (this heat spinoff weirdo rock)
Gruppo Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza ‎– Niente (morricone supergroup)
Henning Christiansen ‎– Kreuzmusik Fluxid Behandlung Op 189 (fluxus sound art)
Jean Tinguely - Sound Sculptures (fluxus sound art)
John Duncan - First Recordings 1978-1985 V1.2 (noise)
Laurie Spiegel ‎– The Expanding Universe (minimal/maximal experimental synth)
Merzbow - Lowest Music and Arts (noise)
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations (sound art noise)
Robert Turman - Flux (new age drone)
Seth Price - Army Jacket (outsider pop)
Suzanne Ciani - Voices of Packaged Souls (experimental/weirdo synth)
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi ‎– Improvisation Sep. 1975 (electroacoustic improv)
Ulises Carrion - The Poet's Tongue (spoken word?)
Various Artists - Recollections GRM (not going to choose... these have all been brilliant. so thrilled that rehberg did this) (all kinds of brilliant musique concrete and early electronic avant garde)
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops (ambient)

edit: done Bryan.

Disintegration Loops is quite good.