Quote Originally Posted by killer_roach View Post
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.
Faustian Echoes isn't on my list either for the same reason, but it's definitely my EP of the year.
Viljans Öga didn't click with me the first time I listened to it because I wasn't in the right mindset for it, but I think the time is right to give it another listen. Will have to check out some of the other stuff on your list.