Album of the Year Thread - Page 8

I much appreciate you not givin' me slack! Haha.

I see we shared a few albums as well. 

So.... my new favorite album of the year is Sufjan Steven's Silver & Gold. Not even remotely kidding.

Im doing this wrong but first I gotta list what 2012 releases iv purchased.

(I think this is everything there might be a few more I missed)

AesopRock - skelethon

Attack Attack - This Means War

Band of Horses - Mirage Rock

Bassnectar - Vava Voom

Beach House - Bloom

Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Crystal Castles - III

Diana Krall - Glad Rag Doll

Die Antwoord - Ten$ion

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar

Garbage - Not your kind of people

Grimes - Visions

Hilltop Hoods - Drinking from the Sun

Jack White -  Blunderbuss

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

Killers - Battle Born

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Lana Del Rey - Paradise

Linkin Park - Living Things

Metric - Synthetica

Meek Mill - Dreams & Nightmares

Muse - The 2nd Law

Nas - Life is Good

Nelly Furtado - The Spirit Indestructible

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Americana

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

The Orb (ft Lee Scratch Perry) - The orbserver in the star house

The Offspring - Days Go By

Owl City - The Midsummer Station

Sigur Ros -  Valtari

Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods

The Shins - Port of Morrow

Shiny Toy Guns - III

Skrillex - Bangarang

Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

Taylor Swift - Red

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

Trampled by Turtles - Stars & Satellites

The Used - Vulnerable

Wax Tailor - Dusty Rainbow from the Dark

Willie Nelson - Heroes

The XX - Coexist

Out of that im just gonna pick my Favorite 5 albums of 2012 in no order.

Wax Tailor - Dusty Rainbow from the Dark.  (The cd deluxe edition is amazing.  Much better packaging then the vinyl.  The first cd has the album and then a pause at the end and it has the singles without the narration.  The 2nd disc was instrumental.  The vinyl dosnt include the instrumental.

The album has Narration by Don McCorkindale telling a story about a child set to Wax Tailors work  It was just amazing!)

Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Grimes - Visions

First Aid Kit - The Lions Roar

Hilltop Hood - Drinking from the Sun

Lorn - Ask the Dust

BT - Morceau Subrosa

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Top 2. BT wins by a hair, but they're very different.

Metal Albums

1 - Vaura - Selenelion

2 - Dysrythmia - Test of Submission

3 - Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships

4 - Hangman's Chair - Hope///Dope///Rope
5 - Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale
6 - Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild
7 - Sonance - Like Ghosts
8 - Witchcraft - Legend
9 - Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
10 - Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
11 - Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
12 -  Pigs - You Ruin Everything
13 - Dephosphorus - Night Sky Transform
14 - Om - Advaitic Songs
15 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir

16 - Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber II

17 - Galaxicon - Old Gods
18 - Dead Instrument - Violent Death
19 - Grave Siesta - S/T
20 - Buried Sleeper - Colosseum
21 - Meshuggah - Koloss
22 - Family - Portrait
23 - Melvins - Freak Puke

24 - Horseback - Halfblood

25 - Stinking Lizaveta - 7th Direction

Metal Demos/EP's

Hesper Payne - Strange Tale of Samuel Gonzalez
Aleph Null - Dale
Melvins - Bulls & Bees

Non-Metal Albums

Goat - World Music (Tribal/Afrobeat/Krautrock/Psychedelic/Folk)
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall (RIO)
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel (Experimental Pop)
Angles 8 - By Way of Deception (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III (Modern/Avant Jazz)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Steve Lehman Trio - Dialectic Fluorescent (Modern Jazz)
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There, Ever Out (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Red Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem (Avant/Free Jazz)
Tim Berne - Snakeoil (Modern/Avant Jazz)
Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World (Pop)
 

Two of the albums that impressed me the most from 2012. There were other albums as well but these two albums have in common although in a different way that they manage to blend the past-present-future into the sound of 2012!

Chromatics - Kill For Love

Tame Impala - Lonerism

In no order:

Until the Quiet Comes by Flying Lotus

Shines by Purity Ring

Mad Liberation by GRiZ

>Album title goes here< by deadmau5

The 2nd law by Muse

After Hours by OVERWERK

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Originally Posted by MorbidToaster 


Seriously? Deadmau5 made that list? I thought that new album was awful. Nice to see Shrines and FlyLo.

I understand why a lot of people hate it, i mean some songs were very meh (Maths and Failbait) but i love deadmau5's style, and i can't get enough of it. F'n pig was a disappointment though, the set up was amazing but the 2nd half wasn't as good. Plus, the previous versions of it were better.

I gotta retract my Channel Orange vote.  Good Kid Maad City is bar none best of the year.

Some great suggestions, thanks everyone!  Here are some of my favorites of 2012:

Brasstronaut - Mean Sun

Gravenhurst - The Ghost in Daylight

Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri - Not the Weapon but the Hand

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Live

Snowgoose - Harmony Springs

Must mention Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams

Just discovered these guys. Been playing the album a lot lately and in my opinion they are up there with Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. Do yourself a favour and check them out!