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Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... Arlo Darlin' - Europe Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II Japandroids - Celebration Rock Beth Orton - Sugaring Season Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light The Young - Dub Egg
Honorable Mention: Michael Martin Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac (came out long ago, but i couldn't stop listening to it this year.) |
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Cate Le Bon - CYRK Moon Duo - Circles Literature - Arab Spring Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse & Twins Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T Koi Pond - So Higher Peaking Lights - Lucifer Mira Cook - Broken Bones
Reissues: The Clean - Oddities Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild Various - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 X Ray Pop - Dream Machine Monochrome Set - Love Zombies & Strange Boutique Tronics - Love Backed By Force Cleaners from Venus - Reissues Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes Die Doraus und Die Marinas - Blumen und Narzissen Drinking Electricity - Overload + Singles Ilayaraja - Fire Star: Synth Pop & Electro Funk From Tamil Films 1984-1989
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Alkibar Gignor - La Paix (Mississippi/Change/Sahel Sounds) Attic Ted - Marginalized (Pecan Crazy) Beach House - Bloom (SubPop/Bella Union) Beak - >> (Stones Throw) Beak - "Mono" 7" (Stones Throw) Cate Le Bon - CYRK (Control Group) Mira Cook - Broken Bones (Aquarius) Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss) Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones) Dabke - Sounds of Syrian Houron (Sham) Palace/Sublime (Frequencies) Dikes of Holland - Braindead USA (Screamers) Diplo - Express Yourself EP (Mad Decent) DIIV - Oshin (Captured Tracks) Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze (SubPop) Errors - New Relics (Rock Action) Flesh Lights - Too Big to Fail (Super Secret) Dr. John - Locked Down (Nonesuch) Kingdom of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves (Golden Hour/Super Secret) Laila Je T'aime - V/A, Mississippi/Change/Sahel Sounds Literature - Arab Spring (Square of Opposition Records) Lola Cola - Tough Love (cassette) Matthew Dear - Beams (Ghostly) Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon (Sacred Bones) Mind Spiders - Fall In Line (Dirtnap) Moon Duo - Circles (Sacred Bones) Nazi Gold - A Message of Love (Super Secret) Palit - Popt (Pecan Crazy) The Orb featuring Lee Scratch - Perry Present The Observer in the Star House Jane Weaver - The Watchbird Alluminate (Finders Keepers/Bird) Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks) The Ripe - Into Your Ears (Get Hip) Santigold - Master of My Reality (Atlantic) Sir Douglas Quintet - Border Waves (Fuel) Ty Segall/White Fence - I Am Not a Game (Drag City) Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer) Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (In the Red)
Reissue Lusciousness: Strange Passion:Explorations in Irish Post Punk/DIY and Electronic 1980-1983 Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984, The Cleaners from Venus (Captured Tracks) Harry Smith Anthology of Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways) Kruder & Dormeister:The K&D Sessions LP, Studio (!K7) The Clean: Oddities, LP (Five Four-O Records) Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-68 |
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swans - the seer tame impala - lonerism ariel pink - mature themes grizzly bear - shields ty segall - slaughterhouse beach house - bloom cloud nothings - attack on memory grimes - visions blur - reissues my bloody valentine - reissues can - the lost tapes the men - open your heart dan deacon - america deep time - deep time literature - arab spring john maus : a collection of rarities matthew dear - beams sharon von etten - tramp sleep - dopesmoker animal collective - centipede hz david lynch - eraserhead ost moss icon - complete discography the zoltars - should I try once more? john carpenter - soundtrack reissues the golden boys - dirty fingernails |
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01) Moonmen On The Moon - Man Maan ep 02) Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill 03) The only show that mattered this year: The Clean June 5th at Club Deville 04) Favorite event: Ichi Ni San Shi video release party for - "Here Sometime Today" at the Domy http://youtu.be/ZajiwgmE3gA 05) The Clean - Oddities 06) Cate Le Bon - CYRK 07) Dead Can Dance - Anastasis 08) Pin Group - Ambivalence 09) Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots A UFO 10) Bring Beer (awesome artist from Austin comp) |
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Olly Knights – If Not Now When Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms Orcas – Orcas Tamaryn – Tender New Signs Scuba – Personality Tame Impala – Lonerism Seamoon – Expression of the Moment Yeasayer – Fragrant World Diiv – Oshin Liars – WIXIW Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan Deep Time – Deep Time Beach House - Bloom Jack White – Blunderbuss Van She – Idea of Happiness OOoOO – Our Loving is Hurting us EP Mr. Oizo & Tahiti Boy – WRONG soundtrack Time & Space Machine – Taste the Lazer
Top Reissues: My Bloody Valentine – all of them Everything But The Girl - Eden Elbow – Asleep in the Back Blur – all of them Lee Hazlewood – A House Safe for Tigers Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild
Top Import Blu Rays (new at Waterloo) Thorne Strike Back – Prequel Series Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh Episodes Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec An Idiot Abroad |
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John Frusciante- PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone Flying Lotus- Until the Quiet Comes Death Grips- The Money Store Metronomy- Late Night Tales Thee Satisfaction- Awe Naturale Azalia Banks-1991 EP Poor Moon- Illusion Ep Battles - Gloss Drop Metal Dance: Industrial Post-punk/EBM Classics and Rarities 80-88 Lee Fields and The Expressions-Faithful Man Andrew Bird- Break it Yourself Minimal Wave tapes VOL 2 Grimes- Visions Hospitality- S/T Gangrene- Vodka and Ayuhuasca Tame Impala- Lonerism Why?- Mumps INC Gaslamp Killer- Breakthrough Wild Nothing- Nocturne Nas- Life is Good Various Artists- Fac Dance 02 Various Artists- Johnny D Presents Disco Jamms Christian Scott-Christian aTunde Adjuah Robert Glasper Experiment- Black Radio |
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Polysick - Digital Native (Planet Mu) Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar) Pinback - Information Retrieved (Temporary Residence) Jussi Lehtisalo - Interludes for Prepared Beast (Ektro/Full Contact) Slussenanalys - Aquila Helvetos Asfaltos (Full Contact) Circle - Serpent (Ektro) Circle - Manner (HydraHead) Grumbling Fur - Furrier (Aurora Borealis) Grumbling Fur - Alice (Latitudes) Soundtrack/Korzynski-Possesion (Finders Keepers) Soundtrack/D'aram-Fascination (Finders Keepers) fave reissues All the John Carpenter reissues on Death Waltz Circle - Taantumus (reissue) (Ektro/Full Contact) Circle - Zopalki (reissue) (Ektro/Full Contact) Circle - Forest (reissue) (Ektro/Full Contact)
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Beach House Bloom Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory Chromatics: Kill for Love DIIV: Oshin King Tuff: King Tuff Twin Shadow: Confess Ty Segall: Slaughterhouse Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: Here Of Monsters and Men: My Head is an Animal Lumineers: The Lumineers Grimes: Visions First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar Purity Ring: Shrines The XX: Coexist Michael Kiwanuka: Home Again Trust: TRST Alt-J: An Awesome Wave Alabama Shakes: Boys and Girls Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill Andrew Bird: Break it Yourself Santigold: Master of My Make-Believe Haun's Mill: Away Kadavar: Kadavar Kingdom of Suicide Lovers: Distant Waves
7inch: The Well: Seven
CD Reissue: Townes Van Zandt: No Deeper Blue
Book: I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by: Brian Atkinson |
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Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy Death Grips - Money Store Thavius Beck - The Most Beautiful Ugly Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis Dethklok - Dethalbum II Maserati - Maserati VII Why? - Mumps, etc. Tides - Resurface WZRD - WZRD |
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Metz - Metz Swans - The Seer Woods - Bend Beyond Hospitality - Self Titled El-P - Cancer For Cure Literature - Arab Spring Mind Spiders - Meltdown Tamaryn - Tender New Signs Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms Hannibal Buress - Animal Furnace Royal Headache - Royal Headache Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory The Zoltars - Should I Try Once More Evening Meetings - Evening Meetings Wymond Miles - Under The Pale Moon Clams Casino - Instrumentals 2 Mixtape Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance Intelligence - Everybody's Got It Easy But Me Lamps - Under The Water Under The Ground William Basinski - Disintegration Loops Box Set Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Alleujah!Don't Bend! Ascend! |
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i don't normally rank these things, but there was one clear #1 this year and it was... 1. Wiccans - Field II metal, hardcore, proggy. heavy and melodic. consistantly engaging and i'm still peeling back layers and finding something new. a masterpiece.
the rest are in the order i thought of them 2. Coma In Algiers - Christ Adonis Algiers 3. Dikes Of Holland - Braindead U.S.A. 4. The Golden Boys - Dirty Fingernails 5. Sic Alps - Sic Alps 6. Moon Duo - Circles 7. Kingdom Of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves 8. The Gory Details - Killer Waves (cassette) 9. Cate Le Bon - Cyrk / Cyrk II 10. The Sword - Apocryphon
7"'s 1. Shortwave Party - Where To Begin... 2. Lola Cola - Tough Love 3. Flesh Lights - Too Big To Fail 4. The Sour Notes / Marmalakes split 5. Love Collector - Human Bodies 6. The French Inhales / Bottle Service split 7. Black Gum - Sludge 8. Sic Alps - L Mansion 9. Sic Alps - Pangea Globe 10. The Well - Seven
shows: 1. Wiccans 8/22 @ 29th St. Ballroom - this is not just the best show of the year, it's the best show of my life.the Ballroom was destroyed by the time they finished. dethroned Jane's Addiction 2. Neighbor / Ichi Ni San Shi / Foreign Mothers / Kingdom Of Suicide Lovers 01 /12 @ The Scoot Inn 3. Pure X 04/06 @ Red 7 4. Cate Le Bon 9/29 @ Red 7 5. Sic Alps 11/05 @ Red 7 6. Power Trip @ Red 7 during Chaos In Tejas |
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Swans - “The Seer” Tin Hat - “The Rain is a Handsome Animal” Air - “Le Voyage Dans La Lune” Chairlift - “Something” Dead Can Dance - “Anastasis” Death Grips - “The Money Store” Deep Time - “Deep Time” Dirty Projectors - “Swing Lo Magellan” Donnie & Joe Emerson - “Dreamin' Wild” Lee Hazlewood - “A House Safe for Tigers” Ilaiyaraaja - “Fire Star: Synth-Pop & Electro-Funk From Tamil Films 1985-1989” The Left Banke - “Walk Away Rene/Pretty Ballerina” David Lynch - “Eraserhead” Killer Mike - “R.A.P. Music Om - “Advaitic Songs” Annette Peacock - “I'm the One” “Country Funk: 1969-1975” JJ Doom - “Key to the Kuffs” Shawn Lee - “Synthesizers in Space” Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend” “Zendooni: Funk, Psychedelia & Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation” “This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound of UK House & Acid 1987- 1991” “Metal Dance: Industrial, Post Punk, EBM Classics & Rarities 80-88” |
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Records: Acephalix - Deathless Master A$AP Mob - Lord$ Never Worry [Mixtape] Burning Love - Rotten Thing to Say Creem - Creem Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail Dinosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky Dom Kennedy - Yellow Album [Mixtape] Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2 Freddie Gibbs - Baby Face Killa [Mixtape] Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage Hank Wood & the Hammerheads - Go Home Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil the Men - Open Your Heart Merchandise - Children of Desire Mind Spiders - Meltdown Nas - Life is Good Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction Rise and Fall - Faith Rome - Hell Money Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead Wiccans - Field II Wild Nothing - Nocturne Witchcraft - Legend
Reissues: Warrior Kids - Les Enfant De L'Espoir LP The Dicks - Kill From The Heart LP Sleep - Dopesmoker LP Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years 1983-1986
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2012 . What a tough effing year!! We only have a few days left right? This was a really good year in music with bands playing their hearts out like it was the end of the world. There were times this year, particularly early on, when I really thought the world would end. Thank goodness for the music. It was really hard to get to everything. These are the ones that I did get the chance to get to and love...in the chronological order in which I fell in love with them.
New Multitudes – Tribute to Woodie Guthrie – Such a polished and fitting tribute honoring someone who helped so many people. Woodie was an innovator of honesty and heart. So is this record. Good from start to finish. An excellent dinner with friends record but it has to be just the right friends.
Father John Misty – Fear Fun –I started listening to this record when it was still cold out, the very end of last winter, during long starry drives. Its got a cinematic quality and a playfulness but its also impeccably witty. He’s a funny bunny this one.
Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax and Volt Singles Plus Rarities 1964-65- Light In the Attic Re-Issue This is the perfect weekend record for the weather turning warmer, for backyard BBQ’s with friends, for twilight dance parties underneath string lights.
Lee Fields & the Expressions– Faithful Man – Everybody needs a really good classic soul record.
Ty Segall & White Fence – Hair – Just enjoyable. Fun. Carefree. Thank god!
Turnpike Troubadours – Goodbye Normal Street – Hey! I’m from Drippings Springs Texas! That means I’m at least 1/4 hillbilly! I love this record. These guys aren’t hillbilly at all. This is the way main stream country music could sound! I particularly like the refined narrative set against this somewhat twangy backdrop.
Twin Shadow – Confess- This is going out music. Going out dancing that is. Night on the town music.
Cat Power – Sun –She is a freakin inspiration in my opinion. Ever the chameleon and always very intuitive. The record for the apocalypse?
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Sera Cahoone- Deer Creek Canyon – Quiet mornings in a warm, peaceful, sun filled house where time just stretches out.
Tame Impala – Lonerism -I’m lucky enough to have officemates with really great music taste. Thanks to them, I get hooked on shit like Tame Impala. It took me several listens but now I’m totally addicted. That’s the problem with free fronts.
Calexico – Algiers – There are some bands that you continue to love because you’ve loved them during an important part of your past. Even knowing that, I can’t help but think track 4 is their masterpiece. I haven’t had my heart broken by a song like that since Bottles and Bones by Califone.
Rodriguez- Searching For Sugar Man (soundtrack) - I’m listing this because there are still people on this planet who have yet to listen to this man. Stop what you are doing right now. Listen. It’s so damn good! It’s a concrete cold fact.
Will Johnson – Scorpion – My contract limits my ability to comment on this record.
Kingdom of Suicide Lovers- Distant Waves – To love with abandon. To scream it out with tears falling and your hair sticking to your face. This record makes me want to wear black eye liner and just let it run.
Beach House – Bloom – How did I not get into this band until November 2012!? To me, its proof that we should give things a second, third even fourth chance! I’m not always going to be blown away on a first listen. Track one is such a good driving song!!! Hell, the whole record is a great Drive the Eff Out of This Town record!
Alt J –An Awesome Wave - The darkness is setting in much earlier these days. The air is colder and the stars are brighter. There is sadness that the summer is ending but also hope for a brilliant fall and winter. A completely unique sound and vibe that seems so fitting right this very minute. |
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Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune Cate Le Bon - CYRK Chairlift - Something Deep Time - Deep Time Errors - New Relics Kingdom of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves Liars - WIXIW Literature - Arab Spring Moon Duo - Circles Raveonettes - The Observator The Ripe - Into Your Ears Santigold - Master of My Make Believe Swans - The Seer Tame Impala - Lonerism Wild Nothing - Nocturne Zoltars - Should I Try Once More? |
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Beach House - Bloom Dan Deacon - America Dr. Dog - Be the Void Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Grizzly Bear - Shields JJ DOOM - Keys to the Kuffs Liars - WIXIW Matthew Dear - Beams How to Dress Well - Total Loss Sigur Rós - Valtari Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light Swans - The Seer Tame Impala - Lonerism Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Reissues/Comps: Archers of Loaf - All the Nations Airports/Vee Vee/White Trash Heroes Blur - Blur 21: The Box Can - The Lost Tapes Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords: Chess Box Deluxe Edition Ivory Coast Soul 2 - Afrofunk in Abidjan 1976-1981 Mantronix - King of the Beats (Anthology 1985-88) Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 The English Beat - The Complete Beat |
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KESEY |
Raveonettes - Observator Tamaryn - Tender New Signs Frankie Rose - Interstellar The Men - Open Your Heart Tennis - Young & Old Lost In the Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Screaming Females - Ugly 2:54 - 2:54 The Young - Dub Egg Black Bananas - Black Bananas Chairlift - Something Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Reissues: Should - A Folding Sieve Dreamscape - La-Di-Da Recordings Can - The Lost Tapes
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1. White Fence- Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2 2. Can- The Lost Tapes 3. Black Bananas- Rad Times 4. Ty Segall & White Fence- Hair 5. Personal Space- Electronic Soul 1974-1984 (comp) |
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Tame Impala - Lonerism Literature - Arab Spring Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon Kingdom of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithful Man Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Mind Spiders - Meltdown White Fence - Family Perfume Vol 1 & 2 Cheap Time - Wallpaper Music Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T |
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Taken by Trees -- Other Worlds Dirty Projectors -- Swing Lo Magellan Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe Prometheus Zombie II Soundtrack (vinyl release - Death Waltz Records) The Sword-- Apocryphon Cat Power - Sun Father John Misty -- Fear Fun Bon Iver - Bon Iver Animal Collective -- Centipede Hz |
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John Maus - A Collection Of Rarities OM - Adviatic Songs Swans - The Seer Grimes - Visions Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpents Scale Literature - Arab Spring Peaking Lights - Lucifer Kadavar - Self Titled Graveyard - Lights Out King Tuff - Self Titled Naam - The Ballad Of The Starchild
Reissues Shinki Chen - Shinki Chen Die Doraus Und Die Marinas - Blumen Und Narzissen Wicked Lady - Axe Man Cometh Annette Peacock - I'm the one Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild Dalek I - Compass Kumpass Witch - We Intend To Cause Havoc (box set) |
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Best New Releases: Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now John Frusciante - PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone Raveonettes - Observator The Beach Boys - That’s Why God Made The Radio
Best Live Show: Max Frost & Kydd (local) Hadden Sayers (local)
Best Reissue: GZA Liquid Swords Chess Box Deluxe Edition (YOU GET A GODDAMN CHESS SET WITH IT!!)
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LPs 01.The Men –Open Your Heart 02. Deep Time – Deep Time 03. Purity Ring – Shrines 04. Moon Duo – Circles 05. Chromatics – Kill For Love 06. Woods – Bend Beyond 07. DIIV – DIIV 08. Tame Impala – Lonerism 09. A Place to Bury Strangers –Worship 10. Ty Segall / White Fence– Hair 11. Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II 12. Here We Go Magic –A Different Ship 13. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory 14. Grizzly Bear – Shields 15. Walkmen – Heaven 16. Matthew Dear – Beams 17. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – So Many Things 18. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance 19. Cate Le Bon – CYRK 20. Symmetry – Themes For an Imaginary Film |
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Compilations 1. The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2 2. Strange Passion: Exploration in Irish Post Punk, DIY, and Electronic Music 1980-83 3. Tally Ho! Flying Nun’s Greatest Bits 4. Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-84
EPs 1. Daniel Rossen – Silent Hour. Golden Mile EP 2. Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze EP 3. A Place to Bury Strangers – Onwards to the Wall EP 4. Matthew Dear – Headcage EP Reissues: 1. Wicked Lady – The Axeman Cometh 2. Sleep – Dopesmoker 3. John Maus – A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material 4. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything /Loveless/EPs 1989-1991 |
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John Fullbright - From The Ground Up Ruthie Foster- Let It Burn Carper Family - BAck When James Hand - Mighty Lonesome Man Joe "King" Carrasco - Que Wow Walter Tragert - Single Drop Of Rain John Lilly - Cold Comfort Mastersons - Birds Fly South Hardin Burns - Lounge Glen Fukanaga - Not A Word Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station Kat Edmonson - Way Down Low
Live Shows: Stooges at ACL
Saxon Happy Hour w/ Denny Freeman + Johnny Nicholas |
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Beach Fossils – shallow 7” Fucked Up/Dirtbombs – booze cruise vol. 8 Grouper/Fred & Annie McDowell/tiki men split. At The Drive In represses Archers of Loaf remasters Balmorhea - rivers arms repress. Burial – kindred Chairlift – something Cloud Nothings – attack on memory Fabio Frizzi – beyond soundtrack Fucked Up – year of the tiger Liz Harris/Ilyas Ahmed split Japandroids celebration rock Led er Est – the diver Literature – arab spring The Men – open your heart Mirroring – foreign body Moon Duo - circles Moss Icon – complete discography Pelican – australasia repress Tame Impala - lonerism Tanlines – mixed emotions Weezer – s/t [blue] MFSL remaster Amps for Christ/Woods split Burial/four tet – nova V/A – bring beer Eraserhead soundtrack |
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Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... Ariel Pink - Mature Themes Beach House - Bloom Chairlift - Something Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Deep Time - S/T DIIV - Oshin Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Grizzly Bear - Shields Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance Tame Impala - Lonerism Toure - Raichel Collective - The Tel Aviv Session Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know Twin Shadow - Confess Wild Nothing - Nocturne |
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Advance Base - A Shut-in's Prayer Chromatics - Kill For Love Maya Jane Coles - DJ-Kicks Dead Can Dance - Anastasis DIIV - Oshin Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Hammock - Departure Songs Holy Other - Held How To Dress Well - Total Loss JBM - Stray Ashes Jeremiah Jae - Raw Money Raps Lemonade - Diver Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton Lushlife - Plateau Visions Monolake - Ghosts Orcas - Orcas Sinkane - Mars SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Instrumentals Tanlines - Mixed Emotions Turing Machine - What Is The Meaning Of What Trust - TRST The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know Remixes Twin Shadow - Confess Wild Nothing - Nocturne Yppah - Eighty One
Reissues: deardarkhead - Oceanside: 1991-1993 Dreamscape - La-Di-Da Recordings |
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general population Beach House - Bloom Literature - Arab Spring Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again Andrew Bird - Hands of Glory
re-issue/archival Carole King - Legendary Demos Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin’ Wild
in the shadow of a pink granite dome Kingdom of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves Haun’s Mill - Away Will Johnson - Scorpion The Light Upstairs - Hour of the Pearl |
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01. Cate Le Bon “CYRK & CYRK II” CD/LP 02. Azita “Year” LP 03. Lee Hazlewood “A House Safe for Tigers” LP/CD 04. Ty Segall/White Fence “Hair” LP/CD 05. White Fence “Family Perfume V1&2” LP/CD 06. Paperheads “Focus in on the Looking Glass” LP 07. V/A “Bollywood Steel Guitar” LP 08. V/A “Music from Saharan Cellphones” LP 09. Tim Foljahn “Songs for an Age of Extinction” LP/CD 10. Getatchew Mekurya “Ethiopian Urban Modern Music V5” LP 11. Chris Ware “Building Stories” BOOK
Cool Reissues The Clean “Oddities” LP Karuna Khyal “Alomoni 1985” LP |
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Ebo Taylor -- Appia Kwa Bridge Battles -- Dross Glop Cate Le Bon -- CYRK Andy Shepard/Michel Benita/Sebastian Rochford -- Trio Libero Pet Shop Boys -- Elysium Kat Edmonson --Way Down Low Neneh Cherry & The Thing -- The Cherry Thing Wild Nothing -- Nocturne Scott Walker - Bish Bosch Khana! Khana -- Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation Ivory Coast Soul 2 -- Afrofunk In Abidjan from 1976 to 1981 The Magnetic Fields -- { 7 inch } Andrew in Drag b/w When Next in Love I Fall Istanbul 70 -- { 7 inch } = (Volumes I, II , III) -- Psych, Disco, Folk Edits by Baris K |
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Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City Sharon Van Etten _ Tramp Mirroring - Foreign Body Bat For Lashes - Haunted Man Andy Stott - Luxury Problems Jesse Ware - Devotion Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind Rick Ross - Rich Forever Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas Nas - Life Is Good Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It Django Django - Django Django |
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IN MEMORY OF ELLIOTT CARTER (December 11, 1908 - November 5, 2012)
BACH: 6 Suites for Cello Solo. Pieter Wispelwey, cello. Evil Penguin Records Classic EPRC 0012 (542500837754) (2 CDs and 1 bonus DVD). Wispelwey's decision to adopt the Cothen pitch of A-natural equals 392 wavelengths per second instead of the standard period pitch of 415 wps or the standard modern pitch of 440 wps led to performances that seem to convey a timelessness imbued with ancient wisdom, an impression further enhanced by the greater physicality required to negotiate those thickened strings, the prominence of Wispelwey's finger work adding to the music's visceral impact.
BARBER: "An American Romantic" (choral works). Conspirare; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor. Harmonia mundi HMU 807522 (09304675226) (SACD). This recording is a wonderful memento of the astonishingly fine live performances of Barber's choral music Conspirare gave last year--buy it either to relive whichever concert you attended or to see what you missed, but buy it!
BIRTWISTLE: Complete String Quartets. Arditti Quartet. Aeon AECD 1217 (376005836017). Though I already own the Arditti Quartet's recording of Birtwistle's 9 Movements for String Quartet from a decade ago, his 2007 "String Quartet: The Tree of Strings" made too strong an impression to exclude from this list, and I look forward to further encounters with it. Please can we now have Birtwistle's Violin Concerto and a domestic release of his "Theseus Game"?
ELGAR/CARTER/BRUCH: Cello Concertos; Kol Nidre. Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Staatskapelle Berlin; Daniel Barenboim, cond. Decca 02894782735. It speaks volumes about Weilerstein's growth as a musician that she is the only cellist with whom Daniel Barenboim has performed Elgar's Cello Concerto since the death of his late cellist wife Jacqueline Du Pre, who remains the concerto's most revered exponent. As for the inclusion of Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto between the Elgar and Bruch's Kol Nidre, Barenboim feels that Carter in his last surge of productivity matched Mozart's knack for writing only the right notes-- remove even one note, and there is diminishment. Carter was a mere 93 when he composed this concerto, and this is already its third recording in the last 7 years.
FAURE: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 89 and Op. 115. Eric Le Sage, piano; Ebene Quartet. Alpha 602 (376001419602). Faure's two beloved Piano Quartets, Op. 15 and Op. 45, have long been considered the greatest of his chamber music masterpieces, yet the older I get the more convinced I am that Faure's Piano Quintet No. 2 is his greatest chamber work, and Quintet No. 1 only gets better with age as well. This recording provided me with new insights into works that more people likely would rank more highly if they listened to them with the same frequency as the Quartets.
NORGARD: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Spaces of Time. Peter Herresthal, violin; Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Rolf Gupta, cond. BIS 1872 (67575403716). Per Norgard's 80th birthday (July 13th) has been celebrated with numerous CD releases, yet though he is my favorite living composer I am ashamed to say that I have fallen way behind in purchasing them all, so to only put one of them on this list is downright shameful. I own every recording that has been made of both of these concertos, and as with the Faure quintets they only get better with age, though the second concerto will take you longer to assimilate.
RIHM:"Astralis" (choral works). RIAS Kamerchor; Hans-Christoph Radermann, cond. Harmonia mundi HMC 902129 (314902021292). The music of Wolfgang Rihm, who celebrated his 60th birthday this year (March 13th), is at its most consistently communicative when it involves the human voice, the two largest works on this CD, "Siebens Passions-Texte" and "Astralis", being no exception, the latter including an unearthly cello and the occasional very discreet contributions of the timpani.
"Vox Clamantis". Filia Sion; Jaan-Eik Tulve, cond. ECM 2244 (02894764499). This impressive and beautiful ECM debut recording by the Estonian vocal ensemble Filia Sion offers a wide variety of sources for medieval chant settings that had me under its spell from the very first note to the very last--wish all my dreams were like this recording!
REISSUE OF THE YEAR: "Richter the Enigma" (documentary about pianist Sviatoslav Richter). Euroarts/idealeaudience 3073518 (88024273518) (2 DVDs). Earlier in the year before this DVD was reissued, I watched this documentary on YouTube over a month of Saturday lunch breaks, via a rather frustrating three or four eleven-minute segments per Saturday, the picture more often than not lagging behind the sound. Since the 1970's I have been in love with Richter's playing, yet I became so fired up all over again that I went on a Richter CD buying spree to fill in gaps in my collection, in addition to which I probably have listened to every Richter recording I already own at least once since my viewing experience. (In the book companion to the documentary, filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon said that Richter was the only pianist that every single one of his colleagues agreed was one of the greatest.) |
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TOP REISSUES 2012 (some are comps) 1 Annette Peacock "Im The One" (LITA) 2 Personal Space - Electronic Soul from 1974 - 84 (Numero) 3 Donnie and Joe Emerson “Dreamin’ Wild” (LITA) 4 The Beyond - soundtrack - (MONDO / Alamo Drafthouse) 5 Rodriguez "Cold Fact" (LITA) 6 Prince of Darkness - Carpenter soundtrack (Death Waltz) 7 Trin Tran "Dark Radar" (Drag City) 8 Palais Schaumburg - self titled - (Bureau B) 9 Drinking Electricity "Overload + Singles" (Medical Records) 10 Kim Fowley "Outrageous" (Vinillmissimo - spanish label) 11 Kendrick Lamar “Good Kid: M.A.A.D City”
TOP NEW RELEASES 2012 1 Deep Time - self titled 2 John Maus - "A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material" 3 Thee Oh Sees "Putrifiers II" 4 Cate Le Bon “CYRK” 5 Om "Advaitic Songs" 6 Ariel Pink "Mature Themes" 7 DEVO "Live In Seattle 1981" 8 Led Er Est "The Diver" |
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1. Cheap Time- Wallpaper Music 2. Wiccans - Field II 3. Fergus and Geronimo - Funky Was the State of Affairs 4. OBNIII's - S/T 5. Merchandise - Children of Desire 6. Lamps - Under the Water Under the Ground 7. King Tuff - S/T 8. Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta 9. Nazi Gold - A Message of Love 10. Holograms - S/T"
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Wiccans- "Field II" Fergus & Geronimo- "Funky Was the State of Affairs" John Mulaney- "New in Town" Donnie & Joe Emerson- "Dreamin' Wild" Smashing Pumpkins- "Oceania" Gentleman Jesse- "Leaving Atlanta" Mind Spiders- "Meltdown" Literature - “Arab Spring” Hannibal Buress- "Animal Furnace" Useless Eaters- "C'est Bon!" Shoes- All the reissues! Merchandise - Children Of Desire |
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Favorite movies that were released in theaters in 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild We Need to Talk About Kevin Last Days Here God Bless America Searching For Sugarman Imposter Raid: Redemption Klown Miami Connection Sleepwalk With Me
Favorite DVD/Bluray releases of 2012: In the Mood For Love (Criterion) BR Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Collection BR Story of Film DVD Rosemary’s Baby (Criterion) BR Burning Moon DVD Battle Royale BR Halloween III BR Get a Life (Complete Series) DVD Savage Streets DVD Belle De Jour (Criterion) BR |
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01. Tame Impala - Lonerism 02. Literature - Arab Spring 03. Cate Le Bon - CYRK & CYRK II 04. Beach House - Bloom 05. Cloud Nothing - Attack On Memory 06. Wild Nothing - Nocturne 07. Deep Time - Deep Time 08. Kingdom Of Suicide Lovers - Distant Waves 09. DIIV 10. Swans - The Seer 11. Moon Duo 12. The Men - Open Your Heart 13. Chairlift - Something 14. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair 15. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! 16. Mind Spiders - Meltdown 17. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs 18. Santigold - Master Of My Make Believe 19. Wiccans - Field II 20. Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse & Twins 21. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance 22. Can - The Lost Tapes 23. Grimes - Visions |
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24. Twin Shadows - Confess 25. John Maus - Collection Of Rarities 26. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II 27. Grizzly Bear - Shields 28. The Zoltars - Should I Try Once More 29. Wymond Miles - Under The Pale Moon 30. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes 31. Lee Fields - Faithful Man 32. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms 33. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan 34. Liars - WIXIW 35. Matthew Dear - Beams 36. Chromatics - Kill For Love 37. King Tuff - King Tuff 38. OM - Advaitic Songs 39. Dum Dum Girls - End Of Daze 40. Ariel Pink - Mature Themes 41. The Raveonettes - Observator 42. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis 43. Will Johnson - Scorpion 44. Cheap Time - Wallpaper Music 45. Kat Edmonson - Way Down Low |
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