| 4.0 excellent |
| A Made Up Sound After Hours/What Preset |
| A Made Up Sound Night Owl |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amenra Alive |
| 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 |
| Andy Stott Merciless |
| Answer Code Request Code |
| ASC Programme 02 |
| ASC Out Of Sync |
| ASC The Astral Traveller |
| ASC Porcelain/Focus Inwards |
| ASC Programme 01 |
| ASC Certainties |
| ASC Open Spaces |
| ASC and Synkro Borderline/Sacred Moments |
| Banks Goddess |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power |
| bansheebeat Lumine |
| Barker and Baumecker Transsektoral |
| Beneath Duty/Texers |
| Biome Spawned |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Burial Burial |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper |
| Burial Young Death/Nightmarket |
| Young Death might not be that interesting, but Nightmarket is the real deal. |
| Caribou Our Love |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| CHVRCHES Recover |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Clubroot III - MMXII |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Clubroot II - MMX |
| Conforce Presentism |
| Conforce Machine Conspiracy |
| Conforce Escapism |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Darqwan Said The Spider |
| dBridge and Instra:mental Wonder Where/No Future |
| Distance Outer Limits |
| Djrum Watermark/The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn |
| Djrum The Miracle |
| Djrum Plantain/What I Was Doing When I... |
| E.M.M.A. Blue Gardens |
| E.M.M.A. LA Mermaid |
| Efdemin Chicago |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Halber 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 |
| Emika Emika |
| ENA Bilateral |
| ENA Binaural |
| FaltyDL Hardcourage |
| FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain |
| Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant |
| Function Incubation |
| Function Berghain 07 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Gesloten Cirkel Submit X |
| Grimes Visions |
| Guido Anidea |
| Hana Hana |
| Holly Herndon Platform |
| Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular |
| Huerco S Colonial Patterns |
| Huerco S A Verdigris Reader |
| Ikonika Aerotropolis |
| Indigo Symbol #7 |
| Instra:mental Resolution 653 |
| Instra:mental Rogue/Sakura |
| Jael Shuffle The Cards |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake Enough Thunder |
| James Blake Air & Lack Thereof |
| Jon Hopkins Insides |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look |
| Karen Gwyer Bouloman |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kaskade Strobelite Seduction |
| Kid Drama Crimson/Azure |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Klatu Mutual |
| Klatu Alchemy |
| Kode9 RA.400 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep |
| Kryptic Minds Namaste |
| Kuedo Severant |
| Kyle Hall Girl U So Strong/Take Me Away |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer |
| Lamb What Sound |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
| Late Phantom Papers |
| Late Night Alumni Empty Streets |
| Laurel Halo Behind the Green Door |
| Laurel Halo King Felix |
| Laurel Halo Hour Logic |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain |
| Levon Vincent Levon Vincent |
| Locked Groove Waves/Shirts Off |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lunik Weather |
| Marcel Fengler Fokus |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Method One Moonlight Mile |
| Method One Symbol #5 |
| Model 500 Digital Solutions |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown |
| Old Apparatus Compendium |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Orbital In Sides |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise |
| Peter Van Hoesen Entropic City |
| Phase (UK) Frames Of Reference |
| Proper fuckin' techno that gets the job done, but with enough variation to keep it interesting for home listens. |
| Phon.o Schn33/Go |
| Poppy Ackroyd Escapement |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Proxima Lie Detection/Brainstem |
| Recondite PSY |
| Recondite Hinterland |
| Recondite On Acid |
| Riya Sublimation |
| Rrose Monad XVI |
| Rrose Wedge of Chastity |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Ryat Totem |
| Scuba Death Nitrogen Narcosis |
| Shackleton Freezing Opening Thawing |
| Shackleton Deliverance Series No. 3 |
| Shed Shedding The Past |
| Shinichi Atobe Butterfly Effect |
| SHXCXCHCXSH Linear S Decoded |
| Silvie Loto Solstice |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone |
| Steven Tang Disconnect To Connect |
| 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 |
| Tobias. A Series Of Shocks |
| Token Records Aphelion |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu |
| Traumprinz Mothercave |
| Traumprinz RA.387 |
| Traumprinz All The Things |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Trixie Whitley Fourth Corner |
| Ulrich Schnauss and ASC 77 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants |
| Unter Null Moving On |
| Vaccine (US) Breathless/Side Effects |
| Vaccine (US) Wishful Thinking/Signal To Noise |
| Vaccine (US) Decryption |
| Veil Records Veil/Unveil Issue One |
| Veil/Unveil Issue One is the first issue in a new series and is the successor to the Symbol series on Veil's parent label Auxiliary but differs by the fact that each issue features four tracks by four different artists. This first issue is certainly quite varied because of that, but of course the tracks still firmly showcase the "Auxiliary Sound". That being said: all tracks are great with "The Noncolour Entity" maybe being the best solo track ASC released so far this year and ASC's spouse Vaccine drops the gorgeous, delicate "Irradiate" (why don't you produce more, Christine???). |
| Veil Records Veil/Unveil Issue Two |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Voices From The Lake Velo Di Maya |
| Vuurwerk ME + ONE |
| Zella Day Zella Day |
| Zomby Dedication |
| Zomby With Love |
| 3.5 great |
| A Made Up Sound Ahead/Endgame |
| Actress Hazyville |
| Actress Ghettoville |
| Actress R.I.P |
| Acylum Karzinom |
| Airlock Symptomatic |
| Amit Human Warfare/No Mercy |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland |
| Amorphous Androgynous Tales of Ephidrina |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers |
| Apparat Krieg Und Frieden |
| Application System Fork |
| ASC Solenoid |
| ASC Polemic |
| ASC Proton/Electron |
| ASC, Sam KDC and Synth Sense AUXWL001-003 |
| Axel Boman Family Vacation |
| Balthazar (BE) Rats |
| Boxcutter Oneiric |
| Boxcutter Glyphic |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror |
| Charli XCX Sucker |
| Christian Loffler Young Alaska |
| Clara Moto Polyamour |
| Clarity Infinite |
| Claro Intelecto Warehouse Sessions |
| Conforce Kinetic Image |
| Consequence (NZ) Test Dream |
| Cooly G Hold Me |
| Cosmin TRG Gordian |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Davwuh EP1 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Deepchord Sommer |
| Dela Translation Lost |
| dEUS Keep You Close |
| DJ Rashad Rollin |
| Djrum Seven Lies |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Dorleac Dorleac |
| Efdemin Decay |
| Ellen Allien Berlinette |
| Ellen Allien Sool |
| Ellen Allien Thrills |
| simple, but fun - Allien's most conventional album |
| Emika DVA |
| Erika Hexagon Cloud |
| Exit Records Mosaic: Volume Two |
| Factory Floor Factory Floor |
| 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 albums 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 Anja Oyen Vister's characteristic vocal delivery. All in all, I would consider Lost Causes to be their best album since, at least, Morning Star. |
| Flunk This Is What You Get |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another |
| Geike For The Beauty Of Confusion |
| Genotype (UK) Lessons In Depth |
| Gesloten Cirkel Gesloten Cirkel |
| Ghostpoet Some Say I So I Say Light |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Goose (BEL) Bring It On |
| Goose (BEL) 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. |
| Guido Moods Of Future Joy |
| 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. |
| Holly Herndon Chorus/Solo Voice |
| Hooverphonic Sit Down and Listen To |
| Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree |
| Ikonika I Make Lists |
| Ikonika Position |
| Indigo Storm |
| Intergalactic Lovers Little Heavy Burdens |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods |
| Ishome Eva |
| Ital Tek Nebula Dance |
| Ital Tek Hyper Real |
| Ital Tek Control |
| Jafu No More |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| James Blake CMYK |
| James Blake The Bells Sketch |
| Jamie xx Far Nearer / Beat For |
| Jazzanova In Between |
| Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back |
| Jon Convex Idoru |
| Joy Orbison The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow |
| Kate Simko Kabuki Drop |
| Kate Simko Lost In London |
| Klute Music For Prophet |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kosheen Resist |
| Kyle Hall The Boat Party |
| L'Orange Old Soul |
| L'Orange The Manipulation EP |
| L.B. Dub Corp Unknown Origin |
I see thousands of muscular black men on Hampstead Heath walking their poodles, and hundreds of black female Formula 1 drivers racing around Birmingham in pursuit of a truly British way of life.
I have a dream |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Lana Del Rey Lust For Life |
| Late Saw, Sine, Square / Voices From The Night |
| Late Night Alumni Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc. |
| Late Night Alumni Haunted |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle |
| Laura Marling Short Movie |
| Laurel Halo Sunlight on the Faded |
| Leftfield Alternative Light Source |
| Lene Marlin Playing My Game |
| Lene Marlin Another Day |
| Lindstrom Smalhans |
| Livity Sound Livity Sound |
| Locked Groove Rooted |
| Locked Groove Different Paths |
| Lunascape Innerside |
| Lunik Ahead |
| Lunik Rumour |
| Lunik Encore |
| LV Sebenza |
| Marcel Dettmann II |
| Maya Jane Coles Focus Now |
| Maya Jane Coles Bubbler |
| Maya Jane Coles Comfort |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| Method One Blackwood |
| Metric Fantasies |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now |
| Moderat Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit |
| Moderat II |
| Modeselektor Happy Birthday! |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz |
| Oaktree Chapters |
| Peter Van Hoesen Perceiver |
| I appreciate the concept, with the first half being focussed on abstract sound design, followed by a second half of more violent club tracks (I mean, "Decoder", fuk...). Still, these interesting moments are a bit held back by some less engaging parts of the album. |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light |
| Phase (UK) Emergence |
| Phon.o Black Boulder |
| Poppy Ackroyd Feathers |
| Prince Of Denmark The Body |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Rrose Artificial Light (1969-1909) |
| Rrose Eating The Other |
| Sam KDC Synesthesia |
| Scuba Triangulation |
| Seven (UK) Walter White |
| Shackleton Deliverance Series No. 2 |
| Shackleton Deliverance Series No. 1 |
| SHXCXCHCXSH STRGTHS |
| Silent Servant Negative Fascination |
| Sorrow (UK) Warring |
| Sorrow (UK) Hieroglyphics |
| Steffi Yours and Mine |
| Stray Letting Go |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed |
| Submotion Orchestra 1968 |
| SX Alphabet |
| SX Arche |
| SX Alpha |
| Synth Sense Fragments From an Infinite Sequence |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| Thriftworks Terry - D |
| Tinashe Aquarius |
| Trade Sheworks005 |
| Tricky False Idols |
| Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall |
| V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head |
| Venetian Snares Traditional Synthesizer Music |
| Volor Flex Unlit |
| Warpaint Warpaint |
| Warsa Deluded/Awake |
| Wen Signals |
| Youth Code Youth Code |
| Zella Day Kicker |
