Top Albums of 2012 (picked by labels, artists, & blogs)

[Silence Kid]

Bleep.com's The Best of 2012

1. Legowelt - The Paranormal Soul
2. Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World 3
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Daphni - JIAOLONG
5. Nathan Fake - Steam Days
6. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
7. Lukid - Lonely at the Top
8. Actress - R.I.P
9. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist
10. Tame Impala - Lonerism

[ocbruin84]

hahaha, Rolling Stone has Green Day in their top 10. Beautiful.

yeah, and they picked the wrong one too.

[bmack86]

There are thousands of albums that came out this year. Green Day's three albums of mostly miss self-indulgent crap belongs nowhere near a top 10. You want punk rebellion, go to Metz or Titus Andronicus and listen to good music. I listened to Uno and Dos and was so fucking underwhelmed, even with lessened expectations.

[TomAz]

hahaha, Rolling Stone has Green Day in their top 10. Beautiful.

Is it 1978? Bruce Springsteen #1, Bob Dylan #4, Neil Young #10, Jimmy Cliff #12, Leonard Cohen #13, Dr John #15, Bonnie Raitt #22.

I may be the biggest Springsteen fan on this board and I wouldn't put that album anywhere near my top 10. I don't listen to it.

[TomAz]

Fuck Bonnie Raitt. what a load of crap.

[mmsk123]

FACT's Top 50 Albums of 2012

50. Bigg Jus - Machines That Make Civilization Fun
49. Helm - Impossible Symmetry
48. Haleek Maul - Oxyconteen
47. The xx - Coexist
46. Purity Ring - Shrines
45. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Timon Irnok Manta
44. Triad God - NXB
43. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
42. Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
41. Cocaine 80s - Express OG EP
40. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
39. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
38. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
37. Le1f - Dark York
36. Gunplay - Bogota Rich: The Prequel
35. Young Smoke - Space Zone
34. Lorenzo Senni - Quantum Jelly
33. Altered Natives - Tenement Yard Vol.3
32. d'Eon - Music for Keyboards Vol. 1
31. Nas - Life is Good
30. Supreme Cuts - Whispers in the Dark
29. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
28. Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore - Ku Klux Glam
27. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
26. Grimes - Visions
25. Main Attrakionz - Bossalinis & Fooliyones
24. The Internet - Purple Naked Ladies
23. Heroin In Tahiti - Death Surf
22. Future - Pluto
21. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful
20. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
19. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
18. Wiley - Step Freestyles
17. I:Cube - "M" Megamix
16. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
15. Sand Circles - Motor City
14. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
13. Madteo - Noi No
12. Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih
11. Actress - R.I.P.
10. Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung 6
9. Swans - The Seer
8. Terrence Dixon - From the Far Future Pt. 2
7. Jam City - Classical Curves
6. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
5. Spaceghostpurrp - God of Black
4. Horrid Red - Celestial Joy
3. Cooly G - Playin Me
2. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996 / Dutch Tvashar Plumes
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. City

[bmack86]

Is it 1978? Bruce Springsteen #1, Bob Dylan #4, Neil Young #10, Jimmy Cliff #12, Leonard Cohen #13, Dr John #15, Bonnie Raitt #22.

I may be the biggest Springsteen fan on this board and I wouldn't put that album anywhere near my top 10. I don't listen to it.

The Neil Young album is the only one I'd consider putting in my top 20. Dr. John's album is cool and Leonard Cohen's is really good, but neither were even slightly unexpected moves. Neil's never put out an album that so fully expressed the Crazy Horse ethos before (even though the title track in its original mix is a complete throwaway.)

[Spooks]

Rough Trade Shops Albums of the Year

Grimes Visions
John Talabot Fin
Toy Toy
Allo Darlin Europe
Goat World Music
Damien Jurado Maraqopa
Alt J An Awesome Wave
Django Django Django Django
Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
chilly gonzales solo piano 2
adrian younge presents venice dawn something about april
kindness world you need a change of mind
sharon van etten tramp
stealing sheep into the diamond sun
satellites 1
keaton henson dear…
tame impala lonerism
smoke fairies blood speaks
stubborn heart stubborn heart
first aid kit the lion's roar
electric guest mondo
chromatics kill for love
opossum electric hawaiii
polica give you the ghost
cat power sun
scott walker bish bosch
portico quartet portico quartet
daphni jiaolong
field music plumb
jesse ware devotion
jack white blunderbuss
godspeed you! black emperor alelujah! Don't bend! Ascend!
quakers quakers
actress r.I.p.
emeralds just to feel anything
crybaby crybaby
sinkane mars
michael mayer mantasy
xx coexist
lianne la havas is your love big enough
richard hawley standing at the sky's edge
beach house bloom
saint etienne words and music by saint etienne
friends manifest!
leonard cohen old ideas
crocodiles endless flowers
bobby womack the bravest man in the universe
michael kiwanuka home again
dirty projectors swing to magellan
the tallest man on earth there's no leaving now
race horses furniture
liars wixiw
trailer trash tracys ester
lindstrom smalhans
dan deacon america
julia holter ekstasis
metz metz
liminanas crystal anis
beth jeans houghton yours truly, cellophane rose
of monsters and men my head is an animal
woods bend beyond
melody's echo chamber melody's echo chamber
mala mala in cuba
the soft pack strapped
lucy rose like I used to
dark dark dark who needs who
yeasayer fragrant world
cody chesnutt landing on a hundred
cold specks I predict a graceful expulsion
the lost brothers so long john fante
moritz von oswald trio fetch
om advaitic songs
group rhoda out of time out of touch
halls ark
dr john locked down
patti smith banga
the cornshed sisters tell tales
lazarus and the plane crash horseplay
dexys one day I'm going to soar
the men open your heart
mumford and sons babel
the maccabees given to the wild
band of horses mirage rock
thee oh sees putrifiers 2
grizzly bear shields
swans the seer
hot chip in our heads
peggy sue peggy sue plays the songs of scorpio rising
spiritualized sweet heart sweet light
allah la's allah la's
tindersticks the something rain
zombie zombie rituels d'un nouveau monde
lana del rey born to die
two wounded birds two wounded birds
tender trap ten songs about girls
flying lotus until the quiet comes
mark lanegan blues funeral
beak> >>
david byrne and st vincent love this giant

[SoulDischarge]

And Fact's top 40 reissues.

40. THE DURUTTI COLUMN - SHORT STORIES FOR PAULINE
39. PHILIPPE D’ARAM - FASCINATION
38. UNSPECIFIED ENEMIES - ‘MULTI ORDINAL TRACKING UNIT’
37. JOHN CARPENTER & ALAN HOWARTH - ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK / PRINCE OF DARKNESS / HALLOWEEN II / HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH
36. IKE YARD - IKE YARD
35. DAVID KILGOUR - HERE COME THE CARS
34. VARIOUS ARTISTS - 122 BPM: THE BIRTH OF HOUSE MUSIC
33. WOO - IT’S COSY INSIDE
32. VARIOUS ARTISTS / SLOW TO SPEAK - CLASSIC HOUSE GROOVES: DOPE JAMS NEW YORK CITY
31. R. STEVIE MOORE - LO FI HI FIVES… A KIND OF BEST OF
30. VARIOUS ARTISTS - PERSONAL SPACE: ELECTRONIC SOUL 1974-1984
29. SENSATIONS’ FIX - MUSIC IS PAINTING IN THE AIR
28. LOOTPACK - SOUNDPIECES: DA ANTIDOTE!
27. Zs - SCORE: THE COMPLETE SEXTET WORKS 2002-2007
26. PLUG - BACK ON TIME
25. PORTER RICKS - BIOKINETICS
24. PETER ZUMMO - ZUMMO WITH AN X
23. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - LOVELESS / ISN’T ANYTHING / EPS 1988-1991
22. BRUCE LANGHORNE - THE HIRED HAND
21. DREAM 2 SCIENCE - DREAM 2 SCIENCE
20. LAURIE SPIEGEL - THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
19. PYROLATOR - AUSLAND
18. PARRIS MITCHELL - ‘ALL NIGHT LONG’
17. DAVID LYNCH & ALAN R. SPLET - ERASERHEAD
16. DREXCIYA - JOURNEY OF THE DEEP SEA DWELLER II / JOURNEY OF THE DEEP SEA DWELLER III
15. VARIOUS ARTISTS - STRANGE PASSION: EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH POST-PUNK DIY AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1980-1983
14. STERAC - SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES: REMASTERED AND REMIXED
13. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - RIFTS
12. THE BURRELL BROTHERS - THE NU GROOVE YEARS: 1988-1992
11. CODEINE - WHEN I SEE THE SUN
10. RAEKWON - ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX: THE PURPLE TAPE
9. BOB CHANCE - IT’S BROKEN
8. KW GRIFF FEAT. PORKCHOP - ‘BRING IN THE KATZ’
7. PAPERCLIP PEOPLE / PSYCHE/BFC - THE SECRET TAPES OF DR EICH / ELEMENTS
6. CLEANERS FROM VENUS - BOX SET VOL. 1
5. LEGO FEET - LEGO FEET
4. SLEEP - DOPESMOKER
3. RUFF SQWAD - WHITE LABEL CLASSICS
2. FRANCIS BEBEY - AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1975-1982
1. MONOTON - MONOTONPRODUKT07

[nosurprises12]

I'm curious as to what criteria someone would use to rank reissues - quality of the remastering/repressing? Packaging? Serious question btw.

[SoulDischarge]

Probably that, cultural importance of the music, how rare it was before it was reissued, etc.

[Spooks]

BRAIDS - Best of 2012
Agor - EP
Born Gold - Little Sleepwalker
Burial - Kindred EP
Chris Reimer - The Chad Tape
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Mac Demarco - 2
Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns
Purity Ring - Shrines
Squarepusher - Ufabulum
Tame Impala - Lonerism

Blue Hawaii - Top 10 LPs of 2012
1. Fin -- John Talabot
2. Kindred EP --Burial
3. Visions -- Grimes
4. Turns Turns Turns EP -- Majical Cloudz
5. Luxury Problems -- Andy Stott
6. 2 - Mac de Marco
7. Little Sleepwalker - Born Gold
8. Pink -- Four Tet
9. RGP EP -- Nic Sarno
10. Optic - Clouds

Art Brut's Eddie Argos
1. No Love Lost by The Nightingales.
Although I've said no paticular order if pushed I would say this is my favourite album of the year. I love all their albums but this is definitely their best. I've spent everyday since it was released listening to it at least once. It depresses me how few people know about this band. Robert Llyod needs to be recognised as one Britain's greatest ever poets and the band celebrated the world over.I wont be satisified till The Nightingales get invited to play the Rock and Roll hall of fame and storm it in a big drunken dangerous spectacular mess or fall on their faces in the attempt.
2. Wildlife by The Lovely Eggs.
Helen Love (who had she found the time to release an album this year would definitely be in my top ten list) described The Lovely Eggs as 'fearless genius the best band in the world right now' can#t get higher praise than that. Go and buy their album (and some Helen Love while you are at it)
3. The Plot Against Common Sense by Future Of The Left.
Righteous anger deliverd with razor sharp wit and it rocks the fuck out.Perfect.
4. Tempest by Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is one of those artists who just keeps getting better. Each album better than the last. This is his 35th Studio album.He is at his peak. Hooray.
5. On The Hot Dog Streets by Go Kart Mozart.
I love everything that Lawrence from Felt/Denim/Go Kart Mozart has ever done. Perhpas a bit too much as I already owned most of this as the unreleased Denim album 'Denim Take Over'. which I bought from ebay for a lot of money. Still thats my fault really and bitterness aside this is a great album.
6. Celebration Rock by Japandroids
7.Hypnotic Nights by Jeff The Brotherhood.
I am aware that a few of my choices are a little esoteric.However Im totally amazed that these albums aren't in all the other end of year lists. They are fucking brilliant. Ive been rocking out and getting drunk to them all year.
8. Average Kinda Savage by Thee Orphans
Hand on heart I think this is one of the best fucking Glam records ever made. A bit odd that it came out in 2012 and not the early seventies but still all the better for it.
9. and 10.
Im cheating a bit now to fill up the quota but a band called The North Sea Scrolls comprised of Luke Haines formerly of The Auters and Cathal Coughlan from Fatima Masions have just released a double concept album that details an alterante occult version of the history of the British Isles which I haven't heard yet but Im dairly sure Im going to love and also the band The Indelicates have started releasing their new album ' Diseases Of England' in three parts and I loved the first part. So know I at least like one third of the album.

Moby's Top 10 Albums of 2012
Cold Specks - I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
iamamiwhoami - kin
Grimes - Visions
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
Liars - WIXIW
Gonzalez - Solo Piano II
Burial - Kindred EP
Metric - Synthetica
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Laurel Halo - Quarantine

Freelance Whales - Top 10 LPs of 2012
Django Django - S/T
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
Hundred Waters - S/T
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Purity Ring - Shrines
TNGHT - S/T EP
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

[Spooks]

BBC Music's Top 25 Albums of 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/...s_of_2012.html

The Best Metal of 2012: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/full/165862

[wmgaretjax]

I'm curious as to what criteria someone would use to rank reissues - quality of the remastering/repressing? Packaging? Serious question btw.

i really enjoy making reissue lists... i think a lot of factors go into it. some reissues are just plain necessary because they are crucial and impossible to find. then there is also contextual considerations... does reissuing the album at this point in time serve some purpose beyond simply making the music available? does it illuminate work being down now? of course quality of reissue matters, but there is so much incredible old music out there that in many ways it becomes more about the choice of picking that one album over the countless others you could choose from. i think this is especially compelling in the experimental realm because there are so many brilliant and bizarre albums that fell to the wayside that make so much more sense now that its easier for people more attuned to this kind of music to get a hold of it.

[nosurprises12]

Probably that, cultural importance of the music, how rare it was before it was reissued, etc.

i really enjoy making reissue lists... i think a lot of factors go into it. some reissues are just plain necessary because they are crucial and impossible to find. then there is also contextual considerations... does reissuing the album at this point in time serve some purpose beyond simply making the music available? does it illuminate work being down now? of course quality of reissue matters, but there is so much incredible old music out there that in many ways it becomes more about the choice of picking that one album over the countless others you could choose from. i think this is especially compelling in the experimental realm because there are so many brilliant and bizarre albums that fell to the wayside that make so much more sense now that its easier for people more attuned to this kind of music to get a hold of it.

Thanks guys; I knew there had to be more to it than just aesthetic features.

[Spooks]

I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

MICK AND KEITH TO PRESENT THE “TOP 10 LIST” ON THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, TUESDAY DEC 11

Rock legends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones return to the Ed Sullivan Theater stage when they present the “Top Ten List” on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Tuesday, Dec. 11 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Jagger and Richards, who first graced the Ed Sullivan Theater stage when the Stones made their first of many performances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” Oct. 25, 1964, will be making their first visit to the LATE SHOW.

[kreutz2112]

Rough Trade Shops Albums of the Year

lianne la havas is your love big enough

So this is great. Acoustic neo-soul with some experimental elements thrown in for good measure.

I just discovered this because two remixes of her songs topped xlr8r's top downloaded tracks of 2012.

Think Shara Worden meets Janelle Monae.

[mmsk123]

GvB's top 100 songs:

100 BENZEL x JESSIE WARE – If You Love Me
99 MUSEUM OF BELLAS ARTES – Bear Cubs
98 JHENÉ AIKO – Mirrors
97 FORT ROMEAU – Say Something
96 PURO INSTINCT – Dream Lover
95 SAND CIRCLES – White Sand
94 THE WALKMEN – The House You Made
93 HARRY FRAUD – Bird on a Wire (instrumental)
92 DESIRE – Tears From Heaven
91 FLYING LOTUS – Getting There (feat. Niki Randa)

90 LACE CURTAINS – Cute Little Black Cloud
89 CAPTAIN MURPHY – Between Friends (feat. Earl Sweatshirt)
88 MOLLY NILSSON – I Hope You Die
87 ANGEL OLSEN – Free
86 SCHOOLBOY Q – There He Go
85 ZEBRA KATZ – Ima Read (feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx)
84 SHLOHMO – wen uuu
83 KATY B + JESSIE WARE – Aaliyah
82 RYAN HEMSWORTH – Colour & Movement
81 ETERNAL SUMMERS – Millions

80 MAGIC TOUCH + SAPPHIRE SLOWS – When I See You
79 BETA FRONTIERS – Hondo
78 SZA – Country
77 FLUME – Insane
76 PEAKING LIGHTS – Dreambeat
75 JESSICA PRATT – Night Faces
74 MAJICAL CLOUDZ – Turns Turns Turns
73 MERCHANDISE – Time
72 SAM FLAX – Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself
71 JULIA HOLTER – Moni Mon Amie

70 MOONS – Bloody Mouth (Watchtower version)
69 OCTO OCTA – Deep Hurt
68 STILL CORNERS – Fireflies
67 FRANKIE ROSE – Know Me
66 KORALLREVEN – Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics remix)
65 SoKo – First Love Never Die
64 HAERTS – Wings
63 PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL – I Want You
62 DEEP TIME – Clouds
61 DISCLOSURE – Latch (feat. Sam Smith)

60 MAC DEMARCO – My Kind of Woman
59 PHÉDRE – In Decay
58 ANTWON – Living Every Dream
57 EMPRESS OF – Don’t Tell Me / Colorminutes
56 TAMARYN – I’m Gone
55 ODD FUTURE – Oldie
54 JOHN MAUS – Bennington
53 JOHN TALABOT – Mai Mes
52 LOL BOYS – Changes
51 JESSIE WARE – Wildest Moments

50 TAME IMPALA – Apocalypse Dreams
49 TOPS – Diamond Look
48 ELITE GYMNASTICS – H e r e , i n H e a v e n 4 & 5 (CFCF remix)
47 KILLER MIKE – Willie Burke Sherwood
46 CHROMATICS – Cherry
45 CHAIRLIFT – I Belong in Your Arms
44 HOLY OTHER – Inpouring
43 NITE JEWEL – One Second of Love
42 PUSHA, KANYE + GHOSTFACE – New God Flow
41 LOWER DENS – Brains

40 PURE BATHING CULTURE – Ivory Coast
39 CHRISTOPHER OWENS – Here We Go
38 NICOLAS JAAR + SCOUT LARUE – With Just One Glance (And I Say)
37 ANDY STOTT – Numb
36 PURITY RING – Fineshrine
35 AB SOUL – Terrorist Threats (feat. Danny Brown + Jhené Aiko)
34 DAWN RICHARD – Call To Hearts
33 JUST FRIENDS – Avalanche
32 FEAR OF MEN – Green Sea
31 CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share

30 BEACH HOUSE – Wild
29 DANNY BROWN – Grown Up
28 WHITE DENIM – Darlene
27 FIRST AID KIT – Emmylou
26 KENDRICK LAMAR – Money Trees
25 DEATH GRIPS – Hacker
24 TAME IMPALA – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
23 MYSTIKAL – Hit Me
22 BURIAL – Ashtray Wasp
21 SCHOOLBOY Q – Hands on the Wheel

20 ALUNAGEORGE – Your Drums, Your Love
19 JESSIE WARE – 110%
18 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – I Only Have Eyes For You
17 BLOOD DIAMONDS x GRIMES – Phone Sex
16 TOMAS BARFOD – November Skies (feat. Nina Kinert) + Jerome LOL remix
15 LANA DEL REY – Ride
14 ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Baby (Donnie & Joe Emerson cover)
13 LAUREL HALO – Thaw
12 MIGUEL – Adorn
11 FRANK OCEAN – Thinkin Bout You (Ryan Hemsworth bootleg)

10 GRIZZLY BEAR – Yet Again
09 CHROMATICS – Back From the Grave
08 KENDRICK LAMAR – Swimming Pools (Drank)
07 EARL SWEATSHIRT – Chum
06 T.I. – Sorry (feat. Andre 3000)
05 MAJOR LAZER – Get Free
04 DEAN BLUNT & INGA COPELAND – The Narcissist
03 FRANK OCEAN – Pyramids
02 GRIMES – Oblivion
01 USHER – Climax

mp3: http://cdn03.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/w...R-END-2012.mp3

[GuyInTucson]

Fuck Bonnie Raitt. what a load of crap.

Well she seems to have given you something to talk about.

[GuyInTucson]

I have consciously avoided the Kendrick Lamar album for a while now but with the reviews it's getting by boardees I whose opinions I trust as well as the media outlets, I think I need to open up and give it a chance.

[bmack86]

Is anyone familiar enough with current metal releases to tell me what off of Decibel's list and Stereogum's Metal list is worthwhile?

[Spooks]

A Place to Bury Strangers' 10 Best Records of 2012:

Metz - Metz
Oneida - A List Of The Burning Mountains
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
White Fence - Family Perfume
Baroness - Yellow and Green
Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right
Clinic - Free Reign
My Education - A Drink For All My Friends
Dan Deacon - America

SAM VELDE - BEST ALBUMS OF 2012
Flats- Better Living (One Little Indian)
Merchandise- Children Of Desire (Kortorga Works)
Black Breath- Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
High On Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis (eONe)
Hoax- 2nd EP (Youth Attack)
The Men- Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Tame Impala- Lonerism (Modular)
Chelsea Wolfe- Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs (Sargent House)
Father John Misty- Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
Salvation- House Of The Beating Hell (Youth Attack)

SAM VELDE - BEST LIVE SHOWS OF 2012
Trash Talk- Anywhere.
Hoax- The Power Of The Riff -West/East.
Double Negative- BIP LA, CA.
Russian Circles- El Rey Theatre LA, CA.
SunnO)))- Fort 8 Antwerp, Belgium.
DNF- Echoplex, LA, CA.

GREG ANDERSON - BEST ALBUMS OF 2012
Black Breath-Sentenced To Life
Tragedy-Darker Days Ahead
High on Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis
OFF!-S/T
Xibalba-Hasta La Muerte
Wolfbrigade-Damned
Double Negative-Whatever they released in 2012!
Loincloth-Iron Balls of Steel
D-Clone-Creation and Destroy

GREG ANDERSON - BEST LIVE SHOWS OF 2012
Repulsion @ Power of the Riff
Tragedy//Los Angeles
Saint Vitus// anywhere
Negative Approach //Power of the Riff East

Jeff Apruzzese's (Passion Pit) Top 10 Albums of 2012

The 2 Bears - Be Strong
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
Todd Terje - It's the Arps
Disclosure - Faces EP
TNGHT - TNGHT
Scuba - Personality
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Daphni - Jiaolong

Corin of Purity Ring's Top 10 tracks of 2012
Future- Turn On The Lights
French Montana feat. Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne- Pop That
Kendrick Lamar- Swimming Pools
Angel Haze- Werkin Girls
G.O.O.D. Music- Mercy
Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe
Usher- Climax
Jesse Ware- Running (Disclosure Remix)
Baauer- Harlem Shake
Lil Durk feat. King Louie- I Get Paid

[kreutz2112]

Is anyone familiar enough with current metal releases to tell me what off of Decibel's list and Stereogum's Metal list is worthwhile?

From the Decibel list I really liked:

Mutilation Rites – Devoid
Grave – Endless Procession of Souls
Gaza – No Absolutes in Human Suffering
A Life Once Lost – Ecstatic Trance

Full disclosure: I almost immediately dismiss most metal albums with 'low-growl' (I don't know how else to describe this) vocals. And I think I remember you talking about Pig Destroyer at one point, but if not, get on that. That seriously might be my favorite album of the year.

[Spooks]

Best one yet for Metal...

AllMusic's Favorite Metal Albums of 2012

With the Mayan calendar portending the end of civilization on December 22, one would assume that that world’s metal elite would supply the ensuing end times with an appropriately apocalyptic soundtrack. Thankfully, bands both seasoned (Converge, Neurosis, Overkill) and freshly baked (Mares of Thrace, Horseback, Burning Love) rose to the occasion, offering up a veritable Last Supper of carnage/Yule Log of eternal suffering that catered to the genre’s myriad styles, while maintaining its subversive essence. Besides, nothing says Christmas quite like cueing up Goatwhore’s “Death to the Architects of Heaven” or Eagle Twin’s “Snake Hymn” at your company holiday party. They may not end up saving the world, but rest assured, these 20 standout acts will make damn sure you drink your Ovaltine while awaiting its annihilation.

Alcest – Voyages de l’Âme
Baroness – Yellow & Green
Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Blut Aus Nord – 777: Cosmosophy
Burning Love – Rotten Thing to Say
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale
Goatwhore – Blood for the Master
Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Horseback – Half Blood
Katatonia – Dead End Kings
Mares of Thrace – The Pilgrimage
Meshuggah – Koloss
Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
Overkill – The Electric Age
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
3 Inches of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal
Torche – Harmonicraft

[bmack86]

From the Decibel list I really liked:

Mutilation Rites – Devoid
Grave – Endless Procession of Souls
Gaza – No Absolutes in Human Suffering
A Life Once Lost – Ecstatic Trance

Full disclosure: I almost immediately dismiss most metal albums with 'low-growl' (I don't know how else to describe this) vocals. And I think I remember you talking about Pig Destroyer at one point, but if not, get on that. That seriously might be my favorite album of the year.

Thanks dude. The Pig Destroyer is definitely top 10 for me (at least right now...) If you like that one, you should check out Liberteer's album, Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees. The other great Grindcore album from this year.

Today I listened to the new ones from Pallbearer, The Atlas Moth and Dawnbringer. All three are really fantastic metal albums. Dawnbringer in particular is kind of astounding. They sound like a more chugging and low-end heavy Iron Maiden. Kind of reminded me of The Sword, but I enjoyed it more.

[bmack86]

Best one yet for Metal...

After today, instantly DQed for no Dawnbringer. I don't think I'll take any metal list without that album seriously. They should really all have The Atlas Moth as well, but I think those guys are even more under the radar (Stereogum likely included them because of the Brandon Stosuy connection, which is where I initially heard about them.)

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Wow, there is so much on those lists that i haven't heard, and pretty much none of the metal records i did love are on them. Though the Allmusic list Spooks mentioned has a lot of good stuff.

Some of my personal metal-related favorites of the year, sub-genres all over the place (that haven't been mentioned yet, though that Alcest album is still one of my favorites of any album this year):
Arctic Sleep - Arbors
Old Man Gloom - No
Wreck and Reference - No Youth
KEN Mode - Venerable
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
te' - Therefore, The Illusion Of Density Breach, The Tottering World Forget Tomorrow
Anhedonist - Netharwards
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
Vilipend - Inamorata
No Joy - Negaverse EP
Cloudkicker - Fade
Pg. Lost - Key

[TallGuyCM]

They should really all have The Atlas Moth as well, but I think those guys are even more under the radar (Stereogum likely included them because of the Brandon Stosuy connection, which is where I initially heard about them.)

According to ? that Atlas Moth album is from 2011.

[bmack86]

Well that explains a lot. It came out September of 2011. Still one of the best albums of 2012, but if I had heard it back then it may very well have topped my 2011 list, as last year was mostly boring.

[bballarl]

I've been trying to get you people to listen to Pallbearer and Dawnbringer all year. That Pallbearer album fucking kills me. And any album about trying to kill the sun is worth time in my book.

The Mutilation Rites and Krallice albums are also well worth listening to.

I bought the new Blut Aus Nord but haven't had time to listen yet. I want to give it the time I feel it will deserve.