Best Of 2012 [2012-12-19]2012 was another great year for music & sound in all it’s many genres. Below you’ll find a list of releases that really meant something to our writers over the last 12 monthsRoger Batty(site owner, Editor, reviewer & article writer) 1:Dead Body Collection - The Rostov Ripper [Sweet Solitude] 2: Truchsess - Entreaty [Muzikaal Kabaal] 3:Chantal - B [Muzikaal Kabaal] 4:Circle - Zopalki [Ektro Records] 5:The Monochrome Man - Sad Sketches For The Monochrome Man [Sweet Solitude] 6: Peter Cusack - Sounds From Dangerous Places [ReR/Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD] 7: Steve Roach/Dirk Serries - Low Volume Music [Projekt] 8: Love Katy - You’re No Good For Me [Altar of Waste] 9: Carrion Black Pit - They Live, We Sleep [Vomit Bucket Productions] 10: Boar - Craft [Worthless Recordings] 11: Rush - Clockwork Angels [Roadrunner Records] 12: Clive Henry - XIII [Vagary Records] 13: Pooh - Pooh’s House [Muzikaal Kabaal] 14: Vomir/Goghal - Amour Du Fossoyeur/Morbus Mora [Zvukovina] 15: Carlton Melton - Photos of Photos [Agitated Records] 16: Funerary Call - Fragments From The Aethyr [Crucial Blast] 17: Niezwyciê¿ony - Stereo Biodissector [Toxic Industries/Irritant Series] 18: John Tilbury/The Smith Quartet - Music for Piano and Strings by Morton Feldman vol2 [Matchless Recordings] 19: Hexvessel - No Holier Temple [Svart Records] 20: Ennio Morricone - Morricone Kill [Él/Cherry Red] 21:Nightmare Castle - At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul [Muzikaal Kabaal 22:Foul - Ripping The Flesh Out Of Your Guts [Burial Recordings] 23:Anonymous - Auschwitz-Birkenau [Sweet Solitude] 24:Ruine - Nous Irons Plus Loin Sans Avancer Jamais [Self Release] 25:Various HNW Artists - Seven Domains Of Disgust [Kafkex Rex] 26:Scant/Ritual Stance - Split [Void Séance] 27:Les Baxter - Jewels Of The Sea [Él/ Cherry Red - 2012] 28:Chloë - Untitled II [self release - 2012] 29:Konntinent - Kiruna [Hibernate Records] 30:Loren Nerell - Slow Dreams [Projekt] Russell Cuzner (reviewer & article writer) 1:Hildur Guðnadóttir-Leyfðu Ljósinu (Touch) 2:Cyclobe- Sulphur-Tarot-Garden (Phantom Code) 3:Myrninerest-"Jhonn," Uttered Babylon (The Spheres) 4:Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage- Live At The Grimm Museum Volume One: (Important Records/Sonic Acts) 5:Elodie- Eglise Saint Merri (self-released) 6:Aluk Todolo- Occult Rock: (The Ajna Offensive) 7:Carter Tutti -Void Transverse (Mute) 8:Oren Ambarchi- Audience of One (Touch) 9:Swans- We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head: (Young God Records) 10:Cut Hands -Black Mamba: (Very Friendly) 11:Un- The Final Question: (ICR/Twenty Hertz) 12:Om -Advaitic Songs: (Drag City) 13:Michael Begg/Human Greed- Dirt on Earth: A Pocket of Resistance (Omnempathy) 14:Voltigeurs- Possession (Turgid Animal) 15:Vertonen At Jennie Richie- Leaving Ocean for Land (Debacle Records) 16:Monos - Age And Transformation + Aged And Transformed (Infraction) 17:Vikki Jackman, Andrew Chalk & Jean-Nöel Rebilly- A Paper Doll's Whisper Of Spring: (self released) 18:X-TG-Desertshore/The Final Report (Industrial Records) 19:KTL- V (Editions Mego) 20:Swans- The Seer (Young God Records) 21:Valley of Fear- Valley of Fear: (Legion Blotan) 22:irr. app. (ext.) -Neognath In Machina (Petit Mal Music) 23:Andrew Chalk- Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies' Wave Serene (Faraway Press) 24:Oren Ambarchi- Sagittarian Domain (Editions Mego) 25:Jarboe- Indemnity 2 (The Living Jarboe) 26:Darren Tate- No Longer Here (ICR) 27:Earth- Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord) 28:Fire! with Oren Ambarchi- In the Mouth - A Hand: (Rune Grammofon) 29:Lull & Beta Cloud / Andrew Liles- Circadian Rhythm Disturbance: (Cold Spring) 30:Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!: (Constellation)
Josh Landry(review & article writer) 1. Swans - The Seer [Young God Records] 2. Meshuggah – Koloss [Nuclear Blast] 3. VA - CinderVOMIT Benefit Compilation [Akashik Record] 4. Willits + Sakamoto - Ancient Future [Ghostly] 5. Robert Rich – Nest [Soundscape] 6. Terminal11 - Self Exorcism [Hymen Records] 7. Sven Kacirek - Scarlet Pitch Dreams [Pingipung] 8. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II [Metal Blade] 9. The Boats - Ballads of the Research Department [12K] 10. VA – Enlight [Enlight Records] 11. Supersillyus – Tesselations [Base Trip Records] 12. Steve Roach - Back to Life [Projekt] 13. Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay[Neurot] 14. Alexander Tucker - Third Mouth [Thrill Jockey] 15. Juicy Bits - Honey Dolphins [Drumlore] 16. VA - Solar System [Mind Experience Records] 17. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz [Domino] 18. Escape Into - The Dream [Enlight Records] 19. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice [Merge] 20. Musik Magier – Moved[CYAN] 21. Venetian Snares - Affectionate EP [Self Release] 22. Venetian Snares - Fool the Detector EP [Timesig] 23. Arktau Eos – Unworeldes [Svart Records] 24. Aglaia – Otherworldliness[Hic Sunt Leones] 25. Smooth Genestar – Utopolis [CYAN] 26. VA - Gem Drops Two [Dropping Gems] 27. Ellis Thomas - Drippy Creatures [Glitchy Tonic Records] 28. Xikwri Neyrra - In Contact With Sound [Acidmaniacs Records] 29. Cyclobe - Sulphur / Tarot / Garden [Phantom Code] 30. Vladislav Delay - Latoma EP [Echocord]
Martin P(review & article writer) 1:Arizona Dranes - He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes (Tompkins Square) 2:Boar - Craft (Worthless Recordings) 3:Caligula031 – Slavetrade2000 (Filth And Violence) 4:Carrion Black Pit/Nascitari – The Conqueror Worm (Forever Escaping Boredom) 5:Dave Phillips & Francisco Meirino - We Are None Of Us (Misanthropic Agenda) 6:Dead Body Collection/Ghost – Whore Of Babylon (self-released) 7:Dead Body Collection/Government Alpha - Fragments Of Memory (Worthless Recordings) 8:Die Reitenden Leichen - Post Wall (Monolithische Aktion) 9:Divorce – Divorce (Night School Records) 10:Emptyset - Medium (Subtext) 11:Eyvind Kang - The Narrow Garden (Ipecac Recordings) 12:Gluttoness – Gluttoness (Oktomedia) 13:Jessica Bailiff - At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky (Kranky) 14:John Butcher & Mark Sanders – Daylight (Emanem) 15:Lungwash – Not Corpse. But Larva (Sound Holes) 16:Nervous Corps - Void (Coffin Birth) 17:Rayon Beach - This Looks Serious (Hozac records) 18:Reptilian Sexual Predator - Vision (Human Ignorance) 19:Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD) 20; Stephen Cornford – Binatone Galaxy (Senufo Editions) 21:Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya (Touch) 22: Tsvia Abarbanel - Yahlel Hawa/Wings of Love (Fortuna Records) 23: UV Race – Racism (In The Red Recordings) 24: Various - _NW (Coffin Birth) 25: Various - Disgust (Kafkex) 26: Various – Ripper Victims (Sweet Solitude) 27 :Various – United States Bestial Forces (L. White Records) 28:Various – Wandelweiser Und So Weiter (Another Timbre) 29:Various - Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923-1936 (Tompkins Square) 30:Where Is This - Rue Des Lombards (Bored Bear Recordings) Duncan Simpson (review & article writer] 1:Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend (Constellation) 2:Eivind Aarset – Dream Logic (ECM) 3:Food – Mercurial Balm (ECM) 4:Nils Petter Molvaer – Baboon Moon (Sula/Sony Music) 5:Holy Other – Held (Tri Angle Records) 6:Swans – The Seer (Young God Records) 7:Katatonia – Dead End Kings (Peaceville) 8:Anathema – Weather Systems (KScope) 9:Nurse With Wound and Blind Cave Salamander – Cabbalism (United Dirter) 10:Tord Gustavsen Trio – The Well (ECM) 11:Burial – Kindred Ep (Hyperdub) 12:Ingenting Kollectiva – Fragments of Night (Oiseaux Invisibles) 13:Laurel Halo – Quarantine (Hyperdub) 14:Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Fetch (Honest Johns Records) 15: oOoOO – Our Love is Hurting Us (Tri Angle Records) 16: Orcas – S/T (Morr Music) 17:Philippe Petit and Friends – Cordophony (Home Normal) 18: Shackleton – Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ (Woe to the Septic Heart) 19: Simon Scott – Below Sea Level (12K) 20: The Caretaker – Patience (After Sebald) (History Always Favours the Winners) 21: The Slaves – Spirits of the Sun (Digitalis) 22: Mono – For My Parents (Temporary Residence) 23: How To Dress Well – Total Loss (Acephale) 24: N.Racker – Flock Toxicant (Pre Cert / Modern Love) 25:John Zorn – A Vision in Blakelight (Tzadik) 26:Blue Daisy and Unknown Shapes – Bedtime Stories EP (Black Acre) 27:Myrninerest – Johnn Uttered Babylon (Coptic Cat) 28:Jam City – Classical Curves (Night Slugs) 29: Julia Holter – Ekstasis (Domino) 30:Various Artists – Lost in the Humming Air (Tribute to Harold Budd) (Oktaf) Nicola Vinciguerra(review & article writer) 1:Caligula031 - Slavetrade2000 CD/tape (Filth And Violence) 2:Kam Hassah - Private Conversation Vol. 1 tape (Joy De Vivre) 3:Incapacitants - Mon, Ma? Mon!!! CD (Triangle/Cerosene/Outcry Records) 4:Deviated Sister TV - Cronaca Vera CDr (Murderabilia Records) 5:Ottaven "Musica Per Un Giorno Registrata In Un Mese" 24xtape + book box (Second Sleep) 6:Tongue Knax - Thee Grand Fidelity tape (Second Sleep) 7:Dj Balli/Ralph Brown - Tweet It! (Extratone Mix) LP (Sonic Belligeranza) 8:Deviated Sister TV - "Bestiae" tape (Santos Productions) 9:Scott Walker - "Bisch Bosch" CD (4AD) 10:Thy Darkened Shade - Eternvs Mos, Nex Ritvs (World Terror Committee)
Paul Casey(review writer) 1:Incapacitants - Alchemy Box is Stupid [Alchemy] 2:Xiphoid Dementia - Secular Hymns [Malignant Records] 3:Funerary Call - Nightside Emanations [Malignant Records] 4:V/A - Americanoise [Audio Dissection] 5:Macronympha - Appetite for Construction [Bizarre Audio Arts] 6:Incapacitants - Eat! Meat!! Manifesto!!! [Rape Art Productions] 7:Incapacitants - mon, ma? mon!!! [Triangle] 8:Incapacitants - Zashikiwarashi Effect [Ljud & Bild Produktion] 9:Donny & Joe Emerson - Dreaming Wild [Light In the Attic] 10:Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years [TKO Records] 11:Rush - Clockwork Angels [Anthem Records] 12:V/A - US Bestial Forces [L. White Records] 13:Klit - Sodomy Is Birth Control [Danvers State Recordings] 14:Torturing Nurse - Hell!? [Mind Flare Media] 15:Egyptology - The Skies [Clapping Music]
Europakorps((reviewer) 1:Arktau Eos - Unworeldes (Svart Records) 2:Bela Bartok - Solti conducts Bartok (Decca) 3:Contemplatron - Prabhashvara (Wrotycz Records) 4:Dawn & Dusk Entwined - Fin de Siècle - Wien (Aube et Crépuscule) 5:Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (PIAS) 6:Deathhammer - Onward to the Pits (Hell's Headbangers) 7:dEUS - Following Sea (PIAS) 8:Hellvetron - Death Scroll of Seven Hells and its Infernal Majesties (Hell's Headbangers) 9:Laibach - Reproduction Prohibited (An Introduction to... Laibach) (Mute) 10:Maldur Atai - Borgata (Autarkeia) 11:Pseudogod - Deathwomb Catechesis (Hell's Headbangers) 12:Sol Invictus - The Devil's Steed (Auerbach Tonträger) 13:Stahlwerk 9 - The Grey Ghost (Steinklang Industries) 14:Troum - Grote Mandrenke (Beta-Lactam Ring) 15:Witchtrap - Vengeance is my Name (Hell's Headbangers)
Richard T. Williams (reviewer) 1 Swans - The Seer [Young God] 2 Nurse With Wound & Blind Cave Salamander - Cabbalism [Dirter] 3 Our Love Will Destroy the World - Thousands Raised to the Sixth [Handmade Birds] 4 Animal Collective - Centipede Hz [Domino] 5 Grimes - Visions [4AD] 6 Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light [Fat Possum] 7 Liars - Wixiw [Mute] 8 Dead Can Dance - Anastasis [PIAS] 9 Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics [Monkeytown] 10 Sleep Research Facility - Stealth [Cold Spring] 11 Burial Hex - Book of Delusions [Cold Spring] 12 Eugene S. Robinson and Philippe Petit - Last of the Dead Hot Lovers [Truth Cult] 13 Black Dice - Mr. Impossible [Ribbon Music] 14 Field Music - Plumb [Memphis Industries] 15 Dan Deacon - America [Domino] 16 Starving Weirdos - Land Lines [Amish] 17 Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense [Xtra Mile] 18 Hirsute Pursuit - Tighten That Muscle Ring [Cold Spring] 19 Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl] 20 Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It’s Cool [Hometapes/Dead Oceans] 21 Blur - Blur 21 (The Box) [Parlophone/EMI] 22 The Eccentronic Research Council -1612 Underture [Bird/Finders Keepers] 23 Hexvessel - No Holier Temple [Svart] 24 Kassel Jaeger - Deltas [Editions Mego] 25 Hot Chip - In Our Heads [Domino] 26 Pet Shop Boys - Elysium [Parlophone/Astralwerks] 27 Yeasayer - Fragrant World [Secretly Canadian] 28 Sylvester Anfang II - Untitled [Latitudes/Southern] 29 Minotaur Shock - Orchard [Melodic] 30 VCMG - Ssss [Mute]
Various
|