The Year 2012 and the sounds it makes.

[timmay9]

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!

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?

[Mystlyfe77]

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

[afterstasis]

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

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

[darkwinterbeast8]

That Desecresy LP is pretty awesome.

[afterstasis]

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

[Runesmith]

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.

[Der_Lex]

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.

[soup567]

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

[killer_roach]

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.

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.

[clashcityrocker10]

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