| 4.5 superb |
| Amatorski TBC |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Burial Kindred |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Distance My Demons |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| DjRum Mountains |
| George Frideric Handel Messiah |
| Hidden Orchestra Night Walks |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago |
| Hidden Orchestra have created a worthy successor and natural progression of Night Walks. Archipelago is organic and electronic, classic and contemporary, relaxing and exiting, subtle and vibrant, varied and consistent. Although not ground-breaking in a major way and clearly not meant for everyone this still is one of the most beautiful, haunting albums of the year. |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk |
| Hooverphonic The President Of The LSD Golf Club |
| iTAL tEK Midnight Colour |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| Maya Jane Coles Easier To Hide |
| Absolutely stunning deep house, can't wait for an album, really. |
| Orbital Orbital 2 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats |
| Throbbing Gristle D.o.A: The Third and Final Report |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| It's quite remarkable this has no review. I might churn something out, then. |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflote, 'The Magic Flute', K. 620 |
| Obviously, a "real" rating of a classical opera requires mention of the specific performance. Needless to say that the 2011 performance I saw in the Sanspareil "Felsentheater" (Germany) was marvelous. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amon Tobin ISAM |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where |
| It appears the man can do no wrong. Needless to say this album is excellent. |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| ASC Out Of Sync |
| Autechre Exai |
| Burial Burial |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper |
| Chvrches Recover |
| Clubroot III - MMXII |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Clubroot II - MMX |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| dEUS Keep You Close |
| DjRum Watermark/The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn |
| Einsturzende Neubauten 1/2 Mensch |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains |
| Ellen Allien LISm |
| Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra Of Bubbles |
| FaltyDL Hardcourage |
| FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant |
| Future Of The Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Guido Anidea |
| Holly Herndon Movement |
| The album can at times be a little too academic, but makes up for it by being so intriguing. Herndon clearly has good ideas and the combination of "classic" minimal techno and acid influences with more experimental sound manipulation is definitely a style deserving further development. |
| Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake Enough Thunder |
| Jamie xx Far Nearer |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kaskade Strobelite Seduction |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep |
| Kryptic Minds Namaste |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer |
| Lamb What Sound |
| Late Night Alumni Empty Streets |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It |
| Orbital In Sides |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses |
| Poppy Ackroyd Escapement |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Proxima Lie Detection/Brainstem |
| Ryat Totem |
| What do I like about this album? Of course there's Ryat's prominent voice and the way it is used as a major instrument and defines the album as a whole. However, I think the production is even more important: it's al about awkard, glitchy beats, manipulated instrumental samples and things I can't exactly identify - when listening to the album, it is impossible to guess what will happen next. As strange as this all may be, I can't imagine how the album should have "worked" otherwise. A great introduction to this album is Ryat's Boiler Room set, which is basically a condensed (but even more powerful) performance of her album: youtu.be/7dAPs5Pw5Twr |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day |
| The Happy Guilty Pleasure |
Catchy as hell, excellent vocal performances, great instrumentation, quite eclectic, bits of cynism, melancholy, and yes, beautiful ladies.
Pop record of the year. |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| Trixie Whitley Fourth Corner |
| Ulrich Schnauss and ASC 77 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants |
| Unter Null Moving On |
| V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head |
| Vaccine (US) Breathless/Side Effects |
| Vaccine (US) Wishful Thinking/Signal To Noise |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Zomby Dedication |
| 3.5 great |
| Acylum Karzinom |
| Airlock Symptomatic |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland |
| Amorphous Androgynous Tales of Ephidrina |
| Apparat Krieg Und Frieden |
| Balthazar Rats |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Boxcutter Oneiric |
| Boxcutter Glyphic |
| Chvrches The Mother We Share |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Dela Translation Lost |
| DjRum Seven Lies |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Dorleac Dorleac |
| Ellen Allien Berlinette |
| Flunk Morning Star |
| Flunk For Sleepyheads Only |
| Flunk Lost Causes |
| A remarkably consistent effort in which Flunk further solidify their sound. Lost Causes sees the band incorporating more of the trip-hop elements from their older album into the indie sound that dominated This Is What You Get. The result is a nice balance of more "catchy" songs with electronic and trippy influences. And of course there's Anja Oyen Vister's vocal delivery, which defines all of Flunk's music. All in all, I would consider Lost Causes to be their best album since, at least, Morning Star. |
| Flunk This Is What You Get |
| Front Line Assembly Improvised. Electronic. Device. |
| Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier |
| Future Of The Left Travels With Myself And Another |
| Geike For The Beauty Of Confusion |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Goose Bring It On |
| Goose Control Control Control |
| The shortest way to describe this album is probably as a mix of alt rock and EBM. Be sure to check out the title track. |
| Hooverphonic Sit Down and Listen To |
| Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree |
| Ikonika I Make Lists |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods |
| iTAL tEK Nebula Dance |
| iTAL tEK Hyper Real |
| Jafu No More |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| James Blake CMYK |
| Jazzanova In Between |
| Joy Orbison The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow |
| Kate Simko Kabuki Drop |
| Kate Simko Lost In London |
| Kosheen Resist |
| L'Orange Old Soul |
| L'Orange The Manipulation EP |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Late Night Alumni Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc. |
| Late Night Alumni Haunted |
| Lene Marlin Playing My Game |
| Lene Marlin Another Day |
| Lindstrom Smalhans |
| Lunascape Innerside |
| Lunik Ahead |
| Lunik Weather |
| Lunik Rumour |
| LV Sebenza |
| Maya Jane Coles Focus Now |
| Maya Jane Coles Bubbler |
| Metric Fantasies |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Scuba Triangulation |
| Seven (UK) Walter White |
| Stray Letting Go |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed |
| SX Arche |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall |
| Warsa The FKOF EP |
