Thursday, December 6, 2012

Music of 2012, so far. . .

I'm trying to put together the finished lists--this year, I think I will do several:  one for metal (it was a great year for metal), one for non-metal (yeah, I know that's not really a good category, but I mainly just wanted to separate the metal out since not everybody is into it), maybe some honorable mention lists, and another list of best songs of the year (as there are several songs that I thought were great but the artists didn't necessarily make it onto the other lists).  For the most part, I have things narrowed down, but as always, as other people start putting out their lists, I find a few things that I missed and still want to check out.  As it stands, you can bet that most things you will see will be from these first two groupings, below.

Love
Allegaeon - Formshifter
Anoice - The Black Rain
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Brendon Small's Galaktikon
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
Carina Round - Tigermending
Chrome Waves - Chrome Waves
Deathspell Omega - Drought
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Meshuggah - Koloss
Mumford & Sons - Babel
Narrows - Painted
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Pigs - You Ruin Everything
Primitive Weapons - Shadow Gallery
Royal Thunder - CVI

Really Like
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes of Absolution
A Life Once Lost - Ecstatic Trance
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS
Bloc Party - Four
Burning Love - Rotten Thing to Say
Caspian - Live at Old South Church
Cat Power - Sun
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
The Chariot - One Wing
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) the Crafty Ape
Dave Matthews Band - Away From the World
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
Elsiane - Mechanics of Emotion
Enslaved - RIITIIR
The Faceless - Autotheism
Fight Amp - Birth Control
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel. . .
Foreign Fields - Anywhere But Where I Am
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
God Forbid - Equilibrium
Gojira - The Flesh Alive
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
Ihsahn - Eremita
Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivion
Josh Ritter - Five Angels
Mares Of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
Menomena - Moms
The Mire/Chronos split EP
Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay
The Ocean - The Grand Inquisitor EP
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
River Whyless - A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door 
Scott Kelly & the Road Home - The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Thrice - Anthology
Torche - Harmonicraft
Toundra - III
Yeasayer - Frangrant World 

Like
Abiotic - Synthesis
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
Alfheimr - Lost and Found Excerpts From the Intrinsic Light II
Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Battles - Dross Glop
Bereft - Leichenhaus
Black God - II
Black Sheep Wall - No Matter Where It Ends
Bob Mould - Silver Age
The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
Caspian - Waking Season
Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar
City of Ships & Rosetta split
Clams Casino - Instrumentals 2
Clint Mansell - Last Night
Cody ChestnuTT - Landing on a Hundred
The Company Band - Pros and Cons
Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
Deadfile - Deadfile / Applied Oneironautics
Dead Prez - Information Age
Demon Hunter - True Defiance
Dethklok - Dethalbum 3
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
Down - Down IV Part 1 The Purple EP
Elbow - Dead in the Boot
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Esthero - Everything is Expensive
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Graveyard - Lights Out
The Great American Desert (formerly South of Lincoln) - Carson City
The Great Sabatini - Matterhorn
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
Heartless Bastards - Arrow
Horseback - Halfblood
Isis - Temporal
Johann Johannsson - Copenhagen Dreams
Joseph Arthur - Redemption City
Josh Ritter - Bringing in the Darlings
Kepzelt Varos - Helium
Lamb of God - Resolution
Larvae - Exit Strategy
Latitudes - Individuation
Love Sex Machine - Love Sex Machine
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Millions - Failure Tactics
Mono - For My Parents
Moving Mountains - New Light
The New Law - The Fifty Year Storm
Nocow / Hmot - Lost in Taiga
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Stare
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
The Safety Fire - Grind the Ocean
Saltillo - Monocyte
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Scott Kelly, Steve von Till & Wino - Songs of Townes van Zandt
Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells
Shining - Redefining Darkness
Sigur Ros - Valtari
Soap & Skin - Narrow
Soundgarden - King Animal
Struck by Lightning - True Predation
The Sword - Apocryphon
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII The Alpha The Omega
Trace Bundy - Elephant King
Tweaker - Call the Time Eternity

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