[paradoxper]

I much appreciate you not givin' me slack! Haha.
 
I see we shared a few albums as well. 
 

 

[metalsonata]

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

 

[tattare]

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

 

[MorbidToaster]

Lorn - Ask the Dust
 

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

 

[KBerube80]

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)
 

 

[Jupiterknight]

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
 

 

[DarthUnnamed]

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

 

[MorbidToaster]

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

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

 

[DarthUnnamed]

Quote:

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.

 

[TMRaven]

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

 

[james444]

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
 

 

[moriez]

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!