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The Memory Tapes remix of Tame Impala's "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" is so good, dare I say its better than the original... definitely!

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speaking of Memory Tapes, Grace/Confusion is one of my favorites so far from this year. Are we gonna do a year end best of around here soon?

http://mtkp.tumblr.com/post/38843691...t-albums-of-12

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http://mtkp.tumblr.com/post/38843691...t-albums-of-12

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I'm glad someone else is pushing that Desecresy LP as one of the best death metal albums this year.

That Desecresy LP is pretty awesome.

Faves of 2012

1. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
2. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
5. The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
6. Scissors & The Cuts - 3 July
7. Seirom - 1973
8. Suis la lune - Riala
9. Minotaur - Obsession
10. Spirit Night - One Man Houses
11. Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Leaving Atlanta
12. Bart & Friends - There May Come a Time
13. Beau Navire - Lumens
14. Desecresy - The Doom Skeptron
15. Guided by Voices - The Bears for Lunch
16. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
17. Ævangelist - De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis
18. High Aura'd - Sanguine Futures
19. Diamond Terrifier - Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself
20. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
21. Enabler - All Hail the Void
22. 36 - Lithea
23. Orcas - Orcas
24. Fire! With Oren Ambarchi - In the Mouth a Hand
25. Alunah - White Hoarhound


Runners-up

Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
Kevin Drumm - Relief
Dweller on the Threshold - Dweller on the Threshold
Fhoi Myore - Fhoi Myore
Holograms - Holograms
Jungbluth - Jungbluth
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Nadja - Dagdrøm
Panopticon - Kentucky
Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services - Sleep Games
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides
Sigur Rós - Valtari
Terry Malts - Killing Time
Wet Hair - Spill Into Atmosphere
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues

I'm an old, jaded bastard who spent most of 2012 digging through 80s music, so I haven't listened to much from last year. Regardless, here's a current top 10.

1. Garbage - "Not Your Kind of People"
2. Friends - "Manifest!"
3. Miniature Tigers - "Mia Pharoah"
4. Killing Joke - "MMXII"
5. Lana Del Ray - "Born To Die"
6. Norah Jones - "Little Broken Hearts"
7. The Men - "Open Your Heart"
8. The Raveonettes - "Observator"
9. Scissor Sisters - "Magic Hour"
10. The Orwells - "Remember When"

Honorable mention to the new releases from The Mountain Goats and A Place To Bury Strangers.

Since we're doing the 2012 top ten thing, might as well post mine too.

1. Big Big Train - English Electric Part One
2. The Gathering - Disclosure
3. Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
5. Motorpsycho - The Death Defying Unicorn
6. Arjen Lucassen - Lost in the New Real
7. Enslaved - RIITIIR
8. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
9. Anathema - Weather Systems
10. Shearwater - Animal Joy

Good year overall.

My top 10 albums of 2012:

1. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
2. Anglagard - Viljans Oga
3. Astra - The Black Chord
4. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
5. Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
6. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
7. Rival Sons - Head Down
8. Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
9. Colour Haze - Transformation
10. Rush - Clockwork Angels

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Since we're doing the 2012 top ten thing, might as well post mine too.

1. Big Big Train - English Electric Part One
2. The Gathering - Disclosure
3. Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
5. Motorpsycho - The Death Defying Unicorn
6. Arjen Lucassen - Lost in the New Real
7. Enslaved - RIITIIR
8. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
9. Anathema - Weather Systems
10. Shearwater - Animal Joy

Good year overall.

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Very, very interesting on your top choice. :)

EDIT: After listening to a few more of my backlog, I think I'm ready to at least give out a preliminary Top 10. I'll write a series of articles outlining a Top 25 (maybe more) for The Gorgon, but I am reasonably confident that this will be my top ten albums for the year (but don't hold me to that, I may change my mind a bit by the time of the writeup).

1. Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)
2. Astra - The Black Chord
3. Änglagård - Viljans Öga
4. Motorpsycho - The Death Defying Unicorn
5. Sigh - In Somniphobia
6. Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
7. iamthemorning - iamthemorning
8. Field Music - Measure
9. Ihsahn - Eremita
10. Dr. John - Locked Down

I don't count EPs in a top albums list, but I will give special mention to Agalloch's Faustian Echoes, which would likely be #4 on this list otherwise.

I should make a list, but I've still got albums to listen to.