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| | Top 19 You Haven't Heard This Year But Definitely Should; Or, I Mean Do What You Want, I'm Not The Boss Of You | | 1 |  | Animal Faces
Anomie
energetic screamo from Canada, RIYL: Beau Navire, State Faults, Suffix | | 2 |  | Brighter Arrows
Division And What It Is To Abide
summery post-hardcore/emo with sweet quiet/loud dynamics, RIYL: Sunny Day Real Estate, Crash Of Rhinos | | 3 |  | Celestial Wolves
Callisto
twinkly, soft post-rock from Belgium, they combine the twinkly elements of acts like Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson with the more straightforward tendencies of Explosions In The Sky | | 4 |  | Elite Gymnastics
Ruin 3
chillwave, electronic band with a knack for remixes, includes some by How To Dress Well and LOL Boys | | 5 |  | Elite Gymnastics
Ruin 4
and they have sweet album covers | | 6 |  | Emay
Adam
chill hip-hop that you won't regret checking out, RIYL: Aids and/or Jash | | 7 |  | Errors
Have Some Faith In Magic
subtle but sorta experimental mix of ambient and electronic from Glasgow, RIYL: Vessels, Field Music, Battles | | 8 |  | The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends
An unabashedly blunt slice of experimental rock that spans a variety of styles and incorporates artists like Justin Vernon, Ke$ha, Tame Impala, Lightning Bolt, Erykah Badu, and Chris Martin, among others. | | 9 |  | Hannibal Montana
Martial Arts In The Time Of Firearms
yes this band name actually exists, and it serves to personify this instrumental band that deals largely in math-infused post-rock that hits grooves upon grooves | | 10 |  | Julia Holter
Ekstasis
creepy, off-kilter electronic/indie/ambient music from a keytarist that hits many emotional sparks from music that ranges from orchestral to minimalist | | 11 |  | Liars
WIXIW
more quality tunes from the guys that brought you their brilliant self-titled album, but this is more meandering and weird; people have thrown around Kid A comparisons and sonically they do it justice, a little | | 12 |  | Lumber Lung
2012
their latest -more female-fronted-screamo- shows a little improvement from their slightly-above-average self-titled record last year, RIYL: Calculator, Beau Navire, Matsuri, girls screaming | | 13 |  | Marissa Nadler
The Sister
harmonic and pretty indie-folk with tons of reverb and an almost shoegaze-y atmosphere, people have tagged her as "dream-folk" which is dumb but I guess it applies well | | 14 |  | Merchandise
Children Of Desire
a post-punk band from Florida, their third album finds them in much poppier territory and they somehow manage not to get bogged down by the long track runtimes | | 15 |  | Scuba
Personality
varied dubstep record is a worthy followup to 2010's Triangulation | | 16 |  | Whirr
Pipe Dreams
dreamy music that captures the essence of shoegaze pretty well, though not quite as well as when the last letter of their name was a "L" instead of a "W" RIYL: Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine | | 17 |  | White Lung
Sorry
energetic post-punk or maybe just regular punk band with a female vocalist and awesome songwriting that probably created the most must-hear album on this list | | 18 | | Wintersleep
Hum
remember this band? this doesn't disappoint like New Inheritors did, promise | | 19 |  | 2:54
2:54
amazingly atmospheric and chill band with more female vocals, the product of which is exceedingly pretty | |
SeaAnemone
06.15.12 | sorry that album is called Hello Hum not just Hum | auberginedreams
06.15.12 | i've heard two of these, do i win a prize? | SeaAnemone
06.15.12 | no that means you didn't understand my use of hyperbole or something | auberginedreams
06.15.12 | damn i really wanted a prize :( | theacademy
06.15.12 | ooOOoo look at this badass rec-ing the sister like dat aint already my joint dawg | theacademy
06.15.12 | (little embarassed to say i call her dream folk in my itunes) :S | SeaAnemone
06.15.12 | well that rec wasn't directed towards you acad I know you and Willie are streets ahead when it comes to that stuff ; ) | theacademy
06.15.12 | balls and willie ;) | CaptainDooRight
06.15.12 | Even though you negatively 1'd my Crevice - Peering album and have showed unkindness towards me
I do want to express that this is a good list and I'll be checking most of these out, possibly. | phishing
06.15.12 | 19 sounds sweet will probs look into | Graveyard
06.15.12 | props for 14 | SeaAnemone
06.15.12 | yeah they're both pretty cool | klap
06.15.12 | can't believe no one has reviewed liars yet, decent record | klap
06.15.12 | also eric have you heard the new hot chip i like it (better than one life stand) and i hate hot chip | Recspecs
06.15.12 | turntable.fm/enterthewalrus | auberginedreams
06.15.12 | dude stop spamming your turntable/tinychat links in everyone's threads, it's kind of annoying. just
make your own list. | Recspecs
06.15.12 | "dude stop spamming your turntable/tinychat links in everyone's threads, it's kind of annoying. just make your own list."
LMAO go play internet police elsewhere. | klap
06.15.12 | seriously aubergine does it bother you that much, because your comment just added another useless addendum to rec's already useless ad | Recspecs
06.15.12 | http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?mode=1&listid=102420#comments
Done. | SeaAnemone
06.15.12 | approaching it apprehensively klappasaurus, but I will check out that Hot Chip record... I WAS turned on by the p4k review of it | Deviant.
06.15.12 | If you wanna hype a dubstep album you could pick a better one, and one that's actually a dubstep record ;) | feav233
06.15.12 | dl'd the new white lung album, keep forgetting to listen to it | Graveyard
06.15.12 | "also eric have you heard the new hot chip i like it (better than one life stand) and i hate hot chip"
I like Hot Chip, but their last album was fucking terrible | klap
06.16.12 | yeah this is better than that one | Scoot
06.16.12 | emay is pretty good
i'll check some others | Inveigh
06.16.12 | ain't no one the boss of me
but you're right, i haven't heard any of these. which one should i listen to first? i trust you, sea. | Satellite
06.16.12 | eric tell me which ones i'd like | Inveigh
06.16.12 | yes, that | Satellite
06.16.12 | me first | Inveigh
06.16.12 | whoa whoa whoa back that ass up | SeaAnemone
06.16.12 | You should both check out that Emay album
Satty I'd say go for White Lung (definitely) and that Brighter Arrows EP, too
and Inveigh you might like Liars! | Inveigh
06.16.12 | cool thanks dog getting them now
if you haven't checked that Blu album from last year (sobhi reviewed it recently), i'm listening to it now and it's really good | SeaAnemone
06.16.12 | actually Inveigh you'd really like that White Lung album as well it's pretty sweet and Satty forget about Emay I realized you don't listen to hip-hop all that much (I mean neither do I, though, but whatever)
and thanks I think I'll get on that... I'm on a Sobhi-kick as of late after beig blown away by both Killer Mike and El-P | Inveigh
06.16.12 | yea not to ball wash or anything but dude's been on a roll lately, was totally pumped when he dropped the Killer Mike review because I thought I was the only one blown away by that album up until that point | 808muzik
08.02.12 | I knew one of em, wooo |
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