| 5.0 classic |
| 16 Horsepower Secret South |
| 16 Horsepower Folklore |
| 16 Horsepower Low Estate |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings |
| It was so beautiful that it made me cry. I think that's enough to warrant a 5. If it isn't, then I don't know what is. |
| All the Empires of the World A Trap For Giants, A Grave For Judges |
| Their best record, their last record. Return and Blessings are classics in my book, and this somehow is even better. I'll always miss these guys. Peace |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors |
| Album of the year for me. |
| Basically the Best Band Ever You Wish You Were as Cool as Us |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
Best I?ve heard Woods in years. This is everything I hoped for and more. I could see it hitting a 5 over time.
Edit: I didn’t need to wait. It’s the best album I’ve heard this year. Already on the third spin and it just gets better.
Absolutely top shelf stuff. Not only is Woods at the best I’ve heard him, but Preservation completely killed the
production here. It’s wonderful. |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps |
| Maybe this will finally break me of my Ethel Cain obsession. Woods never misses. Any beat Segal touches is magic. They can do no wrong. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Brother/Ghost Buried |
| Album of the year, hands down. |
| Cerberus Shoal Chaiming the Knoblessone |
| Colour Revolt Colour Revolt |
| Deaf Center Owl Splinters |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses |
| Enya The Memory of Trees |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Exuma Exuma |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Guadalupe Plata Guadalupe Plata (2017) |
| I'm a sucker for blues. |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| Huun-Huur-Tu Altai Sayan Tandy-Uula |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs |
| Jakob Jakob |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter |
I'm not much for worship music, but this is so honest and reflective that it ends up being one of
the most lyrically mature albums I have ever heard. It's been a staple of mine for years and I
can't believe I've never rated it. |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Over time, I'll probably bump this to a 5 cuz it's totally worthy. Very, very, well executed and brilliant post-metal. At times beautiful, at other times, harsh. |
| Low Double Negative |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Martin Grech Unholy |
| Merkabah (PL) Lyonesse |
| Really, this is excellent in every single waking way. Imagine if someone combined post-metal, post-rock, avant-garde, and jazz. This is what you'd get. The sax is used heavily, it is absolutely beautiful. |
| Midwife (USA) Like Author, Like Daughter |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! |
| Dude's a wizard |
| Milo Budding Ornithologists Are Weary Of Tired Analogie |
| Milo raps as himself. It's nice to have an album that is almost completely devoid of features. The samples are excellent. It's relaxed and honest. I can see myself listening to this well into winter, it's a solid grower. Chill, contemplative, easy listening. It's engaging but not demanding. One of the best hip hop artists in the game right now.r |
| Milo Things That Happen At Day |
| Milo Things That Happen At Night |
| Milo Things That Happen At Day / Night |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Naked City Naked City |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| Oxbow The Narcotic Story |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop |
| I normally am not one to rate something so high right after a first listen. But man I can tell this is going to be a tremendous grower. The vox remind me of Thom Yorke quite often, but that's not a bad thing. The production is fantastic, and there is a rather nice diversity in the instrumentation, whilst remaining relatively simple and laid back at the same time. Wonderful. |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope |
| Pyramids with Nadja Pyramids with Nadja |
| R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages |
| Now if this isn't easily one of the greatest albums I've ever heard in my life. rR.A.P. Ferreira AKA Milo ups his game endlessly. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| Score One For Safety Yoni |
| Scott Walker Tilt |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slint Slint |
| Sorne House of Stone |
| I just started listening to this today. Despite this, I can tell that this is something I'm gonna love for a long time. It's beautiful. |
| Sprain The Lamb As Effigy |
| Oh my god. This mixes everything I love about bands like Swans, GY!BE, and Daughters but still remains unlike anything else I've heard. Excellent in every way. |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... |
| Sun City Girls Torch of the Mystics |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Seer |
| Well, this album is swimmingly good. By swimmingly I mean holy crap I'm drowning. |
| Swans Various Failures |
| 'Her' and 'Blind' are easily some of the most beautiful tracks I have ever heard. However, there are so many gems on this that I can't even begin to name them all. To think these are basically "B-sides" and they're still heads and shoulders above what most bands put out at their very best is absolutely insane. Swans are so consistent. |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talons' Rustic Bullshit |
| Pssssh, this is a 5. Sounds of my teenagedom. I forgot all about this album until last night and it is heavily nostalgic. |
| Talons' Make America Again |
Purple Mountains may be one of the most beautiful
songs I've ever heard. As a parent in this world
full of existential dread, this guy's music always
connects with me on a deep and relatable level
unlike anything I've ever heard before. |
| Ted Nugent Shutup&jam! |
| This will be a classic, forever immortalized in the caramelized BBQ sauce upon the ribs of American glory. |
| Ten Kens Ten Kens |
| Ten Kens For Posterity |
| Yeah, I know, I rated this twice since my old account bit the dust.rStill a 5. I can't even explain how insanely good this album is. It spans genres. |
| Ten Kens Namesake |
| Freaking 2012 album of the year right here. It's like they threw indie styles in a blender and came out with this amazing avant-garde/psychedelic hybrid of stoner indie, post-everything, rock. Seriously, this is genre bending, I have no idea what to call it.rBeautiful. |
| The Books Lost And Safe |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| I decided to bump this to a 5. It's pure art.rThe band had such talent, it's a shame the vocalist had to hit the end so soon.rI miss the knowledge of their presence more and more every day. |
| The Mayan Factor 44 |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden |
| Thelonious Monk Underground |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| Yeah, I haven't heard the entire thing yet... but from what I've heard, it's the perfect mix between crushing post-rock and top-notch ambient music. This will be phenomenal. |
| Thou Magus |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Trist (GER) Hin-Fort |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| William Hung Hung For The Holidays |
| Wovenhand Blush Music |
| I love this. I love this way too much. |
| Wovenhand The Threshing Floor |
| Wovenhand Consider the Birds |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| Yezda Urfa Boris |
| 4.5 superb |
| '68 Two Parts Viper |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| Got this today.rIt's so gorgeous, miles above Sea of the Dying Dhow. Oh man, I'm definitely going to review this or something once I listen to it more, Sputnik needs to hop on this thing.rI know I'm going to love this for a long, long, time. |
| 1099 1099 |
| Where nearly all post-rock has become stagnant and reliant on the same, tried and true, formula- 1099 stands apart in a beautiful way. This is post-rock with restraint. Yet, in their restraint, they prove to be crushingly beautiful and beautifully heavy all at the same time.rI can see this becoming a 5, in time. It's just right. |
| 35007 Phase V |
| A Burning Water We Can See The Sky From Here |
| A Whisper in the Noise Dry Land |
| All the Empires of the World Return |
| I'll probably bump this to a 5, just because I love the music these guys make so bloody much. However, I haven't given it long enough to sink in, yet, so I can't. It's good, so good. I'm so glad they're back. There's a drum machine hanging around this time, and most of the songs are over 10 minutes in length. |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds |
| As others have said, not as bombastic as 'Return'. However, this is still bloody awesome. Muted vocals undermine epic riffing in "St. Peter" and "The Lion", what sound like chanting is also present on said tracks. Within the remaining tracks one can see the band returning to their more instrumental side that has suited them so well from album to album. Drone and ambient elements also show their faces now and again. A surprising release that is among the best 2012 has had to offer so far. Check it out. |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| I'll probably bump this to a 5. |
| Anberlin Cities |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Armand Hammer Shrines |
| Damn. :') |
| Audiocaeneat! Red Sessions |
| Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers |
| This is really cool. I mean, it's really, really, cool. Gorgeous soundscapes are crafted under the soft breath of the vocalist. Chaotic instrumentation swirls around in the background like a hurricane all throughout the album. It's never too chaotic though. |
| Barn Owl Bridge To The Clouds |
| This is so beautiful... I just wish it were longer. But man, it's a perfect combination of drone and folk, it's really one of a kind. |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| Billy Woods Church |
| Woods can do no wrong. I will always be unsure of how I feel about ELUCID's flow. Amazing album nonetheless. |
| Black Sea Somethings Cannot Be Mirrored |
| Hello Isis replacement.rI hadn't listened to this in a good five months. Just started listening to it again, and it's pretty great. |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals |
| BRNS Patine |
| This is one of the best things I've heard all year. Wonderfully inventive, and an improvement upon WOUNDS in every way. |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Easiest 4.5 I've given all year. They killed it on this one. |
| Celer Engaged Touches |
| Cliff Dweller Ghosts of the Dust Bowl |
| Like a mixture between Hungry Ghosts and Balmorhea, this release is a dark journey through the Southwest US. I love it, it's beautiful and haunting. |
| Cloakroom Time Well |
| Cloakroom Infinity |
| Colour Revolt Plunder, Beg, and Curse |
| Colour Revolt The Cradle |
| Crimson Mourn Bring Your Desires Here |
| This is absolutely brilliant. Moments of post-rock and ambient mixed with the occasional electronic/indie influence, some poppy riffs thrown in and dripping with tantalizing segments of black metal. This is not to be missed at all. One of the best albums of the year. It spans genres. |
| CSTVT Summer Fences |
| Danny Brown Quaranta |
| Yeah this is excellent. Sput needs more hip hop lovers. Best I've heard Danny Brown yet IMO. Very smooth, fun, and full of engaging tracks. This will definitely be one of my favorites of the year for sure. |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| David Eugene Edwards Hyacinth |
| Thank God. The Gothic Americana he does so flawlessly has returned in the best form I've heard since Consider the Birds. This may be my favorite thing DEE has ever done thus far. |
| Dawnbringer Nucleus |
| Holy crap. That's all I can say. It's good. Yeah. |
| Day Without Dawn Understanding Consequences |
| Some Russian dude just showed this to me. I am quite impressed, that's for sure. |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth |
| Dead Confederate Wrecking Ball |
| Death Grips The Powers That B |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Esmerine La Lechuza |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| feeble little horse Girl With Fish |
I don't know why but this is my favorite thing I've
heard all year. |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! |
| FiRES WERE SHOT Solace |
| Forever Losing Sleep I Lost Myself Again |
| This is beyond good. It's always good to hear some unique post-hardcore. These guys sound like a mix between Pianos Become the Teeth and Citycop. in a weird but perfect way. |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies |
| Fuck, I'm a Ghost Fuck, I'm a Ghost |
| This is really good.rSeriously, it is extremely good, very, very good.rWithout a doubt, it is fantastic.rThe vocals, instrumentation, everything, just fantastic. |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Geese 3D Country |
| Oh my god this is so wonderful. |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Gilla Band The Talkies |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Wow. I never expected to see anything from them again. Best release I've heard all year next to the new Billy Woods, which is saying a lot. Gonna blast this all summer long for sure. Damn |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal |
| Grails Black Tar Prophecies 4, 5, & 6 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Handwrist All flesh is grass... |
| This is one of the greatest releases of 2012. The artist combines often heavy post-rock sections with very harsh vocals, reminiscent of black metal. The lyrics are very well thought out, and actually pull references from the Hebrew Bible, which I find interesting due to the nature of the music. He does all of this while remaining original, nothing is contrived, and not a single thing is out of place. Truly phenomenal songwriting and performance. It is incredible that this came from one man.rThe best album I have heard all year. |
| Heptagram Lucidity |
| Home Is Where The Whaler |
| Horse Jumper of Love So Divine |
I just want more. The more I listen to it, the better it
gets. |
| Horseback The Invisible Mountain |
| Horseback The Gorgon Tongue |
| Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww freaking yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage |
| I Create Complete Medley |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns |
| In The Wake Of Giants Forever |
| Holy crap... This is so heavy hitting. I mean, wow. |
| Indian Summer Science 1994 |
| Always been a favorite of mine. Shame it's been somewhat forgotten... |
| Irreversible Light |
| Irreversible Sins |
| Irreversible Ashes |
| I love that they're back. Oh man, they are back so hard. |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jasper (TX-USA) An Index of Failure |
| Jenny Hval Viscera |
| Jizue Novel |
| This is pretty darn rad. It's gonna grow on me throughout the year. Very unique. |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B |
| johnny_ripper Still Images & Other Dreams |
| I'll probably bump this to a 5. Best thing I've heard in awhile- it's so uplifting and relaxing. It's certainly very unique, as well, and has a nice flow. |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (online) |
| Banger after banger. |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| I don't even understand how this works so well. It just does. |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist |
| Just Mustard Wednesday |
| Juvenile Baroque Slaughterhouse Gall and Wormwood |
| Absolutely eclectic in every way. This is, without a doubt, an unorthodox release. Despite this, JBS manages to maintain a very high quality of music, one that is rarely found amongst obscure instrumental bands. Post-metal, prog, and post-rock at its finest. Hey, even some electronic moments are found upon this album. |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Labradford Mi Media Naranja |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| This roolz |
| Laura Twelve Hundred Times |
| This may grow to a 5 for me. Laura have taken a more ambient approach to their post-rock methods. Vocals are extremely present upon this release, they're good vocals at that. Definitely one of the top releases of the year in my opinion. They surprised me with this release, I had no idea it would come out today. |
| Les Rallizes Denudes Mizutani |
| Les Rallizes Denudes Cable Hogue Soundtrack |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| Listener Not Waving, Drowning |
| Little Kid Logic Songs |
| It's simple, lo-fi, quiet, and the last thing you'd expect to be powerful. Conceptually, it's too simple to be brilliant. However, it is brilliant- through its execution, its honesty, and its depth. Rarely have any lyrics struck chords with me as heavily this man's lyrics have. |
| Locktender Kafka |
| Low Roar Low Roar |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| This album is rad. I don't use the word rad. But this is rad. It's cool enough to warrant a word that I never use. |
| Mamaleek Kurdaitcha |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Martin Grech Open Heart Zoo |
| This is nearly perfect, I'll probably bump it to a 5. I'm so glad I have a physical copy of this now. Hopefully I can share its brilliance with some friends. |
| Maruja Knocknarea |
| Mason Proper Olly Oxen Free |
| This is so nostalgic to me. It is literally all I listened to years ago when I was a freshman. It is incredible. Fog is just one of those incredible songs. |
| Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem Three |
| Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia Indian Ink |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| I dig this. |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| Moon Ate The Dark Moon Ate The Dark |
| Morningwar The Front Room EP |
| My Beloved Force Feeding Love |
| This is one of those albums that makes me realize that modern post-rock isn't completely dead. It is absolutely phenomenal. |
| Naam Naam |
| This is so bloody tasty. I mean seriously, it's just amazing. The riffs and the vocals, ahhh they're stoner metal perfection. |
| Natural Snow Buildings Waves of the Random Sea |
| Nature and Organisation Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude |
| Nemean Lion Cast of the Moon |
| Imagine if a post-rock band took out the all too predictable crescendos. Well, if a post-rock band did that, you'd get Nemean Lion. Soothing post-rock with a blend of ambiance. |
| Nicole Dollanganger Married in Mount Airy |
| Nihilists Hold Onto Life With Tooth and Claw |
| I know I'll bump this to a 5 eventually, just needs time. The bunch of guys behind ATEOTW are bloody talented, let me just say that. A side project of some of the guys in the aforementioned post-metal/sludge act. Just like Score One For Safety, it retains the power of ATEOTW while remaining vastly varied, different, and unique.rHuge AOTY contender here. I just wish it were longer. |
| O (DEU) Black Sea Of Trees |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| O'Death Head Home |
| Okkoto Childhood/Brotherhood |
| Our Ceasing Voice Steadied Stars In The Morphium Sky |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat |
| This is seriously, utterly top-notch.rProgressive at it's finest. |
| Petey Lean Into Life |
| Piano Magic Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet |
| I haven't heard this yet. But, I'm rating it highly in knowing that it's certainly not a 1. Gotta counter that rating somehow. |
| Piano Magic Ovations |
| Pile Magic Isn't Real |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
How can you give this album a 3 if there's only been one track released as of yet? Their new
single is awesome anyway.
EDIT:
It was worthy of my original rating. Memory is a phenomenal track. My only complaint is that I
want the album to be a little longer. |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| PSOTY ...And The Sky Fell |
| Upon listening to the first few seconds of this, I knew I was in for something great. As the album came to a close, I was blown away. Simply put, it's crushing beauty. From the shredding guitars in "...And The Sky Fell" to the beautiful, quiet vocals of "I Am The Ocean" every moment is incredible. |
| Pyramids Pyramids |
| Rachel's Handwriting |
| Radius System Escape/Restart |
| Radius System Architects Of Yesterday |
| Me gusta.rMucho.rThis is some tasty stuff.rSome of the riffs on here are just fantastic, especially in 'Feed Feed Connect'. |
| Rome Die Æsthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit |
| Rome Flowers From Exile |
| Rooftop Access Reals and Dreamity |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Ruby Yacht 37 Gems |
| A blessing to all of mankind. |
| Ruins Mandala 2000 |
| Saaad Raincoats |
| Saltland I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us |
| Score One For Safety Castles |
| Seabuckthorn In Nightfall |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata |
| Show Me The Body Trouble The Water |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Souvenir's Young America The Name of the Snake |
| Street Sects End Position |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones |
| This is gorgeous. I have a feeling it's going to grow on me a lot.rIt's absolutely massive, and I love it. |
| Svarte Greiner Knive |
| Syven Aikaintaite |
| This album makes me feel like a viking hunting down a madman in the forest, I get attacked by rabid wolves along the way, fight them off, kill the madman, and then light a campfire on the top of a snow-covered peak at sunset. |
| Tad Piecka Stars Are Stars and Yours Are Yours |
| Maybe I'm a bit daft to rate this so highly since all that it consists of is the Beware of Safety bassist and a lone guitar. Everything is done on the spot, no overdubbing or anything, which is amazing considering how complex the arrangements are. Some sections the man drums his guitar and strums complex patterns at the same time. He has an immense amount of talent. |
| Tenhi Valkama |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... |
| The Fun Years God Was Like, No |
| I really like this. It's so sublime. It's just soothing, smooth, and perfectly crafted. |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive |
| The Six Parts Seven Casually Smashed to Pieces |
| The Weak Men Weak Men DOG |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| This is perfect and I'm in love.rWill probably bump to a 5 if it stands the test of time like Tunnel Blanket did. |
| Tiago Benzinho Roses of Time I |
| Beautiful... Just absolutely beautiful on every single level. It makes me dream of canyons and ravines, slow falling waterfalls and angry forest fires. Sleeping Classical influences and lush, burning, ambient swells fill this thing to the brim. One of my favorite 2012 releases thus far. |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| I first listened to this yesterday on 04/20. So you can infer how it went. r |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vaura The Missing |
| I love Selenelion or however you spell it. rI'm so glad they upped the production a bit more on this release, that was the only drawback of their debut in my opinion. This thing is solid. |
| Vyva Melinkolya Unbecoming |
| I can see myself bumping this to a 5 soon. Wow. Best shoegaze record I've heard in ages. 222 may be one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. If you sleep on this, you're crazy. |
| Walmart Associate Choir Eyes of a Child |
| The album art on this reminds me tremendously of the cover art on "Soundtracks for the Blind" by Swans. |
| Wax On Radio Exposition |
| We Are Sheep Among Wolves Navaja/Massacre |
| Basically, it's a whole minimalistic post-rock album with vocal samples about massacres, one about Christianity, and another that is in a foreign language.rReally weird man, but pretty dang good. |
| Wovenhand The Laughing Stalk |
| Wovenhand Refractory Obdurate |
| This makes me moist. This will likely be an AOTY contender. DEE and company are geniuses. |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette |
| Wreck and Reference Want |
| Wreck and Reference Absolute Still Life |
| Hell, somehow they topped their earliest works. This is pure art. It's hard to even categorize it, it's simply in its own sonic headspace.rIncredible |
| Yeule softscars |
| Yo. Why is this so insanely good? |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Laurentian's Atoll |
| 35007 Liquid |
| A Country Western A Country Western |
| Absent In Body Plague God |
I really want more. I wish it was longer.
Lmao I set myself up for that one |
| Adult Jazz Gist Is |
| Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions |
| Alberich NATO-Uniformen |
| This is like a monster of noise placed in the pit of a Cold War. |
| All the Empires of the World Sunscraper |
| This is so, so, solid. Extremely unique, and a slight departure from their previous albums. It still retains that really nice post-metal/black metal vibe they've had as of late. But man, there's some spoken word on this, a folk track, a Spaghetti Western feel on another track... I mean this has some really intriguing stuff. Definitely worth a go, and a very solid start to 2014.rhttp://alltheempiresoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/sunscraper |
| All the Empires of the World CVRSVS |
| The little interlude present in the second track is just about one of the best things I've heard in a long while. |
| Austyn Sullivan The Expanding Art of Sorrows |
| Barn Owl Lost in the Glare |
Barn Owl are one of my favorite acts, simply because they combine folk and drone. It's such
a soothing and unique output.rImagine if Master Musicians of Bukkake had children with
Earth. Yeah, Barn Owl would bear its little head, and the doctors would place it in one of
those plastic boxes for a fortnight. The child would then grow to be the Paul Bunyon of the
drone scene- hanging out in the mountains, chill, and massive.rYeah, that alliteration
didn't work. Whatever. |
| Barn Owl V |
| Barnswallow Twos |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Birds Of Passage Without The World |
| For someone who does not like female vocals at all (me.) I find this album to be brilliant. It's so minimalistic and soul crushing. Definitely worth a listen if you like ambient, drone, post-rock, or anything along those lines. Think of it as a more minimalistic Grouper... which is hard to imagine. |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bull Of Heaven 013: Elsa, Are You In There? |
| I can't figure out how to upload Bull of Heaven's stuff. They're one of my favorite drone/ambient bands. However, they just release massive tracks one at a time. They have yet to release a single album. So, I'll probably just upload the tracks I feel like uploading one at a time (since they range from 13 minutes to 50,000 hours long.), and can account for their own individual albums/EPs. |
| Bull Of Heaven 056: Return of Ghost Sheriff |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Celer Malaria |
| Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer |
| Chastity Death Lust |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Citizens Of The Empire Citizens Of The Empire |
| Clann Zu Black Coats and Bandages |
| Cloakroom Further Out |
| Cloud Rat Threshold |
| One of my favorite metal releases this year so far. |
| Clouds Collide Until the Wind Stops Blowing |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Their best album. 'Nuff said. |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones |
| Daughter If You Leave |
| Deadhorse We Can Create Our Own World |
| Delta Sleep Management |
| Ef Ceremonies |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat |
| Flying Saucer Attack Flying Saucer Attack |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Frustrator Anther |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Ghinzu Blow |
| So, yeah.rHow does this not have a review yet? It's really good. I'd think it would have a review since it's fairly well known. |
| Gifts From Enola From Fathoms |
| Gilla Band Holding Hands With Jamie |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Man, these don't even feel like freaking B-sides. So good r |
| Guadalupe Plata Guadalupe Plata (2011) |
| Yeah, not a 5, its uniqueness wore off. But it is still fantastic. |
| HANDLINGNOISE HANDLINGNOISE |
| Well, this is pretty darned fantastic. It's good post-rock, but has enough of a spin on it, including great vocals/lyrics that sets it apart just enough as to prevent another clone release. Unique, and nice. Think Laura mixed with God is an Astronaut and Russian Circles. It may grow on me further as time goes on. |
| Hannah Jadagu Aperture |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land |
| Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha |
| I'll probably bump this after a few more listens. I can feel it becoming one of my top albums of this year, potentially. |
| In The Wake Of Giants The Joy, The Sorrow |
| This album is really unorthodox. Somehow, I find it so passionate though, which I love. Don't judge me. |
| Indian Jewelry Free Gold! |
| From what I've heard of it so far, it's pretty cool. |
| Irreversible Irreversible |
| I'll miss these guys, they're always so solid... but I do recall that they claimed to have broken up after "Lights" was released and then they came back for a good few years. So you never know. |
| JJ DOOM Bookhead EP |
| John Lithgoat Who Gives a Fuck Nowhere |
| Normally not my style of music at all. But it's really good stuff. Some pretty hard hitting punk/hardcore/what have you. I'm impressed. Reminds me of some of the earlier emo/hardcore acts like Indian Summer. |
| johnny_ripper Still Images & Other Dreams |
| Juna Heteroglossia |
| This is some fantastic post-hardcore. |
| June of 44 Engine Takes to the Water |
| Knifeplay Animal Drowning |
| Koen Holtkamp Field Rituals |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY |
| Little Kid Might As Well With My Soul |
| Nothing is easy or free |
| Loma Don't Shy Away |
| Magna Mater Rimor |
| Man Watching the Stars Qoheleth |
| Real nice improvised violin/ambient. Very subdued, and restrained, but also interesting enough to remain captivating. Me gusta. |
| Maria BC Spike Field |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| Much better than her last release, but I still wish this were longer. It feels more like an EP. The tracks on here, however, are all excellent. |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come |
| MinionTV MinionTV |
| Mit'an Bli Imut Ein Hitkadmut |
| Punch in the face hardcore from Israel. Hebrew can sound really angry if used correctly.rFemale/male vocal switch offs, pulsing guitars, throbbing bass, and the fast paced drums. Pretty good stuff. |
| Mooncake More Oxygen, I Said... [EP] |
| Moses Sumney Aromanticism |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| I am typing this so that I can reach the 50 character minimum |
| My Brother, The Vulture Now's Your Chance |
| Pretty cool stuff. Awesome debut EP from a little known band. Shows great promise, let's hope the stuff that'll follow this will be of the same quality, if not better. |
| Nature and Organisation A Dozen Summers Against the World |
| O (DEU) When Plants Turn Into Stones |
| Digging the use of the hurdy gurdy on this |
| Old Gray An Autobiography |
| orchid mantis kulla sunset |
| Our Ceasing Voice When the Headline Hit Home |
| Our Fair City A Most Clever Disaster |
| Indeed.rThis.rIs.rQuite.rGood.rExtra characters for character limit. |
| Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista |
| pink navel and Kenny Segal How to Capture Playful |
| Really enjoying this so far. It's bringing me back to my days of playing GameCube when I was 12. That's not a bad thing. |
| Pygmy Lush Bitter River |
| R.A.P. Ferreira bob's son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the garden level |
| As always, Rory hits it out of the park. This album was not nearly as immediate as Purple Moonlight Pages, but it's certainly just as enjoyable after digesting for a few weeks. It's quite a fair bit more abstract and substantially less straight-forward in comparison to his earlier work under this moniker. That being said, anything this artist makes is a true pleasure to listen to. |
| R.A.P. Ferreira The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap |
| Best I've heard Rory since Purple Moonlight Pages. I've been spinning this one a lot. |
| Sadistik L'appel Du Vide |
| The Moon Smiled Back at Me may be one of the best hip hop songs I?ve heard this year. This is a super enjoyable release.rI hope we get another full length from him soon, Cody has definitely carved out a pretty signature sound at this point in his career. |
| Sadistik x Kno Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured |
| Saltillo Monocyte |
| Pretty cool stuff. The drums can be a little too obviously techno at times... which I'm not entirely fond of. Despite this, it is still a fantastically solid release, and well worth the listen. |
| Samla Mammas Manna Maltid |
| Lol, this is so cool.rYeah, that's right.rI said it was cool.rRight now,rI am trying to fulfill the 50 character minimum.rSo,rThis is a beautiful poem.rPoem.rSo, em.rMem,rThat's not a word. |
| Scarcity Aveilut |
| This is amazing so far. |
| Silent Land Time Machine &Hope Still |
| This is such an odd mixture of sounds, but boy do I love it. I have a feeling it's going to grow on me immensely. |
| Siskiyou Siskiyou |
| Sithu Aye Isles |
| Slint Tweez |
| Starflyer 59 Young in My Head |
| subtractiveLAD No Man's Land |
| Sun of Nothing The Guilt Of Feeling Alive |
| Suuns Zeroes QC |
| Talk Talk Missing Pieces |
| Talons' Songs For Babes |
| Tapir! The Pilgrim, Their God and The King Of My Decrepit Mountain |
| Tesa Heartbeatsfromthesky |
| Superb post-metal... Purely instrumental, save for the occasional scream. It is not that common when there are vocals however. One of my favorite, mostly instrumental, post-metal albums. Nekad, their 2007 release which was previous to this one, is better though. |
| The Body Christs, Redeemers |
| The Saddest Landscape Darkness Forgives |
| The Tumbled Sea melody/summer |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Tommy The Warden Carbonated Lungs and Kerosene Tongues |
| Twine Violets |
| Vaura Selenelion |
| I dunno why this doesn't have more 4's and what not... It is really unique on all fronts. It takes some getting used to, but is gorgeous once you get there. |
| Virgin White Virgin White-EP |
| Very nice stuff. Borderline post-hardcore, but mainly alternative rock. |
| We Made God It's Getting Colder |
| Pretty sweet stuff.rNow I'm just adding in words so this sound off meets the minimum character requirements. |
| Wife Stoic |
| Wovenhand Star Treatment |
| David Edwards never disappoints. I'm definitely missing his old folk habits, though. Here's to hoping that he really strips back on the next release. |
| Wovenhand Puur |
| Wovenhand Silver Sash |
DEE is consistent as always. This definitely his most energetic I?ve heard him. Part of me still will always miss
his quieter Goth brand of Americana of his early releases, but he?s never missed a step with pure quality output.
Definitely an enjoyable and well crafted album. There are little dashes of his signature folk work intermixed with
excellent heavier notions and even a little bit of electronica here and there, it’s effortless. |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| You Slut! Critical Meat |
