Best Albums of 2012

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Your Best Albums of 2012 So Far...

Looking for some random new music, i'll listen to most stuff but just wondering what new stuff everyone else has been listening too this year.

So far this year ive picked up;

Hot Water Music - Exister
Kimbra - Vows
Walk The Moon - Walk the Moon
Grimes - Visions
Nada Surf - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
Tallest Man On Earth - Theres No Leaving Now
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
First Aid Kid - The Lions Roar
FUN. - Some Nights
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
The Shins - Port of Morrow
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes - Here
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Beach House - Bloom
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
 
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Stuff I've enjoyed this year:

Skrillex - Bangarang EP
Celldweller - The Complete Cellout
Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar
Celldweller - Live Upon a Blackstar
Celldweller - Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head Volume 2
BT - If the stars are eternal so are you and I
InMe - The Pride
Metric - Synthetica
I Will Never Be The Same - Tornadoes
Julien-K - We're Here With You
Knife Party - Rage Valley EP
Modulate - Robots EP
 
There will be no links. But here's what I've got so far.

No Trigger - Tycoon,
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past,
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure,
Aesop Rock - Skelethon,
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living,
Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved (for fans of The Gaslight Anthem and Hot Water Music and possibly even JEW),
Gallows - Gallows,
Apologies, I Have None - London,
Our Time Down Here - Midnight Mass,
Mixtapes - Even on the Worst Nights,
Such Gold - Misadventures
Narrows - Painted,
Baroness - Yellow and Green,
Daytrader - Twelve Years,
Architects - Daybreaker.

Some EPs and local stuff,
Hunt/Gather - False Monuments (think Botch, Glassjaw etc)
Crusades - Golden Throats (for fans of At the Drive-In, Refused, Fugazi)
CLEAVE - The Circle (Japanese melodic hardcore punk)
Daylight - The Difference Between Good and Bad Dreams (dark, brooding, moody post-hardcore/indie).

Got a few I still need to check out too. Like Devil Sold His Soul, The Chariot, We Are the Ocean, Killer Mike, Brother Ali, Propagandhi, Coheed and Cambria, and I hear there's a new Dinosaur Jr. album out too
 
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Yeah I have no idea how links to last fm work so I'll just do a list.

Busdriver - Beaus$Eros. Not his best work but still decent.
Napalm Death - Utilitarian.
Meshuggah - Koloss.
Architects - Daybreaker. Return to form after the disappointing The Here and Now.
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage. Best opening track of the year for me.
Murder Construct - Results.
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity. Similar to The Harvest Floor but better.

There are at least ten albums still to come though so my list is likely to change.
 
Ne Obscliviscaris - Portal of I

There have been others but this is in a different league to anything else I've heard this year.
 
My stand outs so far

Jessie Ware - Devotion
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Alt J - An Awesome Wave
The Cast Of Cheers - Family
 
Only three stand out for me so far:

The xx - Coexist
Burial - Kindred (EP)
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (really surprised me, much better than I expected)
 
Shamikebab said:
It's a thread for best albums of 2012 and you're linking every social networking site the label is a member of! Which leads me to assume you work for them :p
Click to expand...

The original post said "just wondering what new stuff everyone else has been listening too this year". Well, mostly Sonic Pieces releases. Of which Dictaphone the most. So I linked to Dictaphone and the label and it's social network stuff as some people might want to follow them or listen to the music. And the social networking stuff isn't linked from the artist or label site. So it would save them searching.

That's called being helpful. I wish I made commission for recommending stuff.
 
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