2012 : Recommended Albums List (compiled in first post)

[joeki]

Post all your recommendations of albums released in 2012 that are non-dubstep/grime/garage...

Also, can we keep youtube links to a minimum? They are quite annoying and people are smart enough with the internet these days. Perhaps a text link is fine, but try keep the embedded video's to a minimum shall we?

Artist - title [label] (rough genre description) <= do not take literally, hear for yourself!

List:

Acephalix - Deathless Master [southern lord] (death-metal/crust)
Actress - R.I.P [honest jons] (techno/electro/ambient) | Resident Advisor : 4.5/5
ASC & Sam KDC - Decayed Society [auxilary] (ambient/downtempo) |Resident Advisor : 4.5/5
Aucan - Black Rainbow Remixes [tannen] (breaks/dubstep/electronica)
Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways [punch drunk] (house/funky/experimental) | XLR8R : 7.0/10
Beach House - Bloom <sub>(indie rock/pop) | Pitchfork : 9.1/10
Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka - TheyLive! [fifty weapons] (house/techno/funky) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Bvdub - Serenity [darla] (ambient/minimal) | Sputnik Music : 2.8/5
Bvdub - Don't Say You Know [darla] (ambient/minimal/d&b)
Chairlift - Something [columbia] (rock/synth-pop) | Pitchfork : 8.0/10
Children of Nova - Impossible Landscape [self-released] (progressive rock) | Sputnik Music : 3.8/5
Claro Intelecto - Reform Club [delsin] (techno/ambient) | Resident Advisor : 4.5/5
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory [wichita] (indie rock) | Pitchfork : 8.6/10
Commix - Dusted [metalheadz] (d&b) | Resident Advisor : 3.5/5
Dan HabarNam - From the Known [exit] (d&b) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful [hyperdub] (leftfield/dub/experimental) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Death Grips - The Money Store [third worlds] (hiphop/experimental) | Drowned In Sound : 10/10
Débruit - From the Horizon [civil music] (beats/boogie/breaks/experimental)
Desolate - Celestial Light Beings [fauxpas] (idm/downtempo/ambient) | Sputnik Music : 3.8/5
Dr. Dog - Be The Void [anti-] (alternative rock) | Pitchfork : 5.7/10
El-P - Cancer For Cure [fat possum] (hiphop/electronic) | Syffal : 10/10
Emptyset - Medium [subtext] (noise/basic channel/dubtechno)
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colours [ambush reality] (post-hardcore/electronica) | NME : 8.0/10
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives [epitaph] (hardcore) | Ultimate Guitar : 8.7/10
Evian Christ - Kings and Them [free mixtape/tri angle] (witch house/footwork/hiphop)
Fluxion - Traces [echochord] (dubtechno/house/ambient) Resident Advisor : 3.5/5
Fort Romeau - Kingdoms [100% silk] (deep house) | Pitchfork : 7.5/10
GonjaSufi - MU.ZZ.LE [warp] (psych-rock/lo-Fi) | Pitchfork : 7.8/10
Grimes - Visions [4AD] (Synth-wave/electro-pop/electronica) | Pitchfork : 8.5/10
Hands like Houses - Ground Dweller [rise] (post-hardcore)
Jimmy Edgar - Majenta [hotflush] (funky/techno/house/electro)
JK Flesh - Posthuman [3by3] (industrial/dub/experimental) | Drowned In Sound : 7.0/10
John Talabot - Fin [permanent vacation] (house/disco) | Resident Advisor : 4.5/5
Julia Holter - Ekstasis [rvng. Intl] (downtempo/electro/rock) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Kap Bambino - Devotion [because music] (electro/noise)
Larvae - Exit Strategy [ad noiseam] (breaks/triphop/post-rock)
Last Step - Sleep [planet mu] (Acid/IDM/experimental) | XLR8R : 7.5/10
Lazer Sword - Memory [monkeytown] (bass/funky/footwork) | Resident Advisor : 3.5/5
Lone - Galaxy Garden [r&s] (bass/electro/funky/footwork) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Loops of Your Heart - And Never Ending Nights [magazine] (ambient/minimal) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh [MODERN ART] (synth pop)
Monolake - Ghosts [imbalance computer music] (idm/techno/dubstep) | Resident Adivsor : 4.5/5
MyChildren MyBride - s/t [solid state] (hardcore)
Nedry - In a Dim Light [monotreme] (post-rock/dubstep/experimental) | Clash Music : 8.0/10
Orbital - Wonky [acp] (breaks/grime/electro) | Drowned in Sound : 8.0/10
Oyaarss - Bads [ad noiseam] (noise/breaks/dubstep)
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 it [matador] (indie rock) | Pitchfork : 8.4/10
Pop.1280 - The Horror [sacred bones] (rock/postpunk)
Recondite - On Acid [acid test] ((acid)House/Techno/minimal) |
RQ - Memory Fields [auxiliary] (experimental/ambient)
Scuba - Personality [hotflush] (techno/house) | XLR8R : 7.5/10
Secrets - The Ascent [rise] (post-hardcore)
Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells [lupus lounge] (black metal)
Shackleton - Music For the Quiet Hours / The Drawbar Organ Eps [woe to the sceptic heart] (techno/dub(step)/ambient/experimental) | Resident Advisor : 4.5/5
Shifted - Crossed Paths [mote evolver] (techno/minimal) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
Skittles - Poor With £100 Trainers [estate] (hiphop/grime/..?)
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror [mom+pop] (noise-rock) | Pitchfork : 8.2/10
Slugabed - Time Team [ninja tune] (glitch/hiphop/bass) | Drowned in Sound : 8.0/10
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light [domino] (avant-garde/rock/experimental) | Pitchfork : 8.8/10
Squarepusher - Ufabulum [warp] (idm/d&b/jungle) | Pitchfork : 6.3/10
Subwave - Subwave [metalheadz] (d&b)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben [a] (psych/rock/folk) | Pitchfork : 6.3/10
The Host - The Host [planet mu] (bass/ambient/glitch) | Resident Advisor : 4.0/5
The Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom of the Sea [domino] (rock/synth-pop) | Pitchfork : 6.1/10
Torche - Harmonicraft [volcom] (stoner/sludge/metal) | Pitchfork : 6.5/10
Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman [planet mu] (footwork/juke) | Pitchfork : 7.1/10
Vedomir - Vedomir [dekmantel] (techno/house/experimental)
Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake [prologue] ((dub)techno/ambient) | Resident Advisor : 5/5
V/A - Blood Pressure [med school] (d&b)
V/A - Kontra - Musik Mixes [kontra musik] ((dub)techno/deep house/minimal) |
V/A - Pop Ambient 2012 [kompakt] (ambient) | Pitchfork : 4.5/10

Re-Issues

Noisia - Split the Atom (Special edition) [mau5trap] (d&b/tear-out)
Porter Ricks - Biokinetiks [type] (techno/ambient)
Sepalcure - Room(s) Extended Version [planet mu] (footwork/house/funky)
KWJAZ - KWJAZ [not not fun] (abstract/lo-fi/experimental)</sub>

[joeki]

Monolake - Ghosts

super dark amalgamation of dubstep, techno, dub, drum & bass, jungle, IDM, Ambient...nice.

[BroPassFilter]

I've really been feeling Lapalux "When You're Gone" release. Super chill but very tasteful beat production.

http://soundcloud.com/lapalux/lapalux-w ... re-gone-ep

[monkjack]

new mars volta album gona be incredible

[ultraspatial]

Palisades - I'm Not Dying Today EP
My Ticket Home - To Create A Cure
if anyone's into the whole Rise style post-hardcore

Enter Shikari - A Flashflood of Colour
Pop. 1280 - The Horror
hopefully new Bloc Party album
A Place To Bury Strangers - Onwards To The Wall EP
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Venetian Snares' EPs

and pretty much everything released on Metalheadz

[funjamin]

new mars volta album gona be incredible

Been pretty bored by these guys since maybe 'Frances The Mute' - Although saying that the bits they played live last year were pretty cool.

[AxeD]

Monolake - Ghosts

super dark amalgamation of dubstep, techno, dub, drum & bass, jungle, IDM, Ambient...nice.

Fun fact: Monolake developed Ableton

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Monolake - Ghosts

super dark amalgamation of dubstep, techno, dub, drum & bass, jungle, IDM, Ambient...nice.

Fun fact: Monolake developed Ableton

he helped with the live side of it

it was actually developed by bernt rogendorfhorfcorf (cant remember how to spell it) and gerhard behles

but yes, ghosts is an epic album

[ultraspatial]

O. Children - APNEA

[SCope13]

new mars volta album gona be incredible

[untightled]

Skittles - Poor With £100 Trainers

[Liam92]

O. Children - APNEA

First album was really good, had no idea a second one was coming out - look forward to this!

Dead Set on Living - Cancer Bats is what I'm most looking forward to atm

[ultraspatial]

O. Children - APNEA

First album was really good, had no idea a second one was coming out - look forward to this!

Dead Set on Living - Cancer Bats is what I'm most looking forward to atm

They released the first single, PT Cruiser, as a free dl.

[kier3wiet]

pretty much everything released on Metalheadz

[AxeD]

Monolake - Ghosts

super dark amalgamation of dubstep, techno, dub, drum & bass, jungle, IDM, Ambient...nice.

Fun fact: Monolake developed Ableton

he helped with the live side of it

it was actually developed by bernt rogendorfhorfcorf (cant remember how to spell it) and gerhard behles

but yes, ghosts is an epic album

True but Behles was a part of Monolake for four years I actually don't care about Ableton at all though

[joeki]

New Evian Christ - Kings And Them mixtape is getting some play here. And it's free!

I think the first four tracks show certain promise from this character (though I admit, it won't be for everyone and some the ideas haven't quite matured yet, are don't seem to go certain places yet).

After the first 4-5 tracks, things go down hill a bit. If you like Clams Casino, you'll want to check it out though.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Monolake - Ghosts

super dark amalgamation of dubstep, techno, dub, drum & bass, jungle, IDM, Ambient...nice.

Fun fact: Monolake developed Ableton

he helped with the live side of it

it was actually developed by bernt rogendorfhorfcorf (cant remember how to spell it) and gerhard behles

but yes, ghosts is an epic album

True but Behles was a part of Monolake for four years I actually don't care about Ableton at all though

really? haha, i never knew that! (learn something erryday)

[vertex]

new mars volta album gona be incredible

I've listened to the stream quite a few times today, it's a good album and kind of reminds me of Bedlam is a little less frantic.

[exfox]

Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka - They!Live

[joeki]

Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka - They!Live

+1, though personally I would qualify this as house forum material (I believe it has a thread there) but yeah, warrants a mention here too.

Emptyset - Medium

Third full album from the Bristol duo James "Ginz" Ginzburg & Paul Purgas under their Emptyset moniker. As with the last one, this one sees a release on the quality Subtext label (run by Ginz and Pinch) that also released Roly (Vex'd) Porter's ambient promising debut "Aftertime" last year.

It is actually a mini album with only 5 tracks (still considered an LP). And it veers even further away from their techno and dubstep roots displayed on the first album. Very much slow noise/basic channel experimentation but with a heavy sub bass kick to it. Hardly any structures left to grab on to, just throbbing electronic minimalism. If you enjoyed their previous output, don't rest on this one. Fans of Scorn, 3 by 3 records etc. will also find this quite enjoyable.