Unbalance
Tectonic
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Domino
All is Wild, All is Silent
Western Vinyl
Ambivalence Avenue
Warp
When Planets Explode
Kindred Spirits
Veckatimest
Warp
Lucky 9Teen
LuckyMe
The Bells
Kning Disks
Beacons Of Ancestorship
Thrill Jockey
One Foot Ahead of the Other
Ramp
(In alphabetical order)
7 comments:
Dude for a start I really need to see a proper numerical order-only joking-it's a great list.
I'm with you on Zomby, Animal Collective & 2562.
I found Tortoise slightly difficult but I can see why it's included.
Bibio, Grizzly Bear & Dorian Concept would certainly have been in my top 30 had it been extended.
Mike Slott just got so hard to say the others I really need to check out.
Definitely some overlap with my list. A lot of these I'm just starting to listen to though so I don't know well they rank for me e.g. Mike Slott. His singles are fantastic though. Don't get the hype for Peter Broderick. The Ben Frost, Bibio, and Grizzly Bear records are excellent.
Firstly have to say I'm chuffed to see Nils Frahm here - A new, real talent on the scene and easily one of the best albums of the year! I expect more great things from him... when I do my list you'll see the few similarities but I'm most surprised to see the Balmorhea album here - it never stuck with me mostly due to the more rocky elements.. maybe I'll revisit but I found the remix album more successful. I'm gonna pick up that Zomby from Boomkat in the next few minutes as its hit alot of lists. How would you say this year has been? Alot have been saying it hasn't been a strong year for releases but I'm pretty happy with my haul!.. and it looks like you've had a bit more of an electronic year too!? Not so much indie rock here?
My conclusion to this year of music is that there has been a consistency of likable releases, with some surprises, but not so many standouts or genre creating albums. Also, on the whole I think guitar / rock based music has taken a back seat with all the eighties inspired stuff that's going around - Korg is king once more.
Its been the year of the synthesis - genres are slowly become blurred, less pigeon holed, which is no bad thing really... More please ;o)
nice list (except for that grizzly bear abomination ;)
can't really separate my top 5
1. lonely island - incredibad
1. nosaj thing - drift
1. bibio - ambivalence avenue
1. mayer hawthorne - a strange arrangement
1. torngat - la petite nicole
balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent (and the remixes disc)
dirty projectors - bitte orca
clark - totem's flare
animal collective - mpp
gentleman losers - dustland
heather woods broderick - from the ground
islands - vapours
lymbyc systym - shutter release
javelin - self titled
mount kimbie - maybes
odd nosdam - t.i.m.e soundtrack
oneida - rated o
paul white - punch drummer ep
ramona falls - intuit
shogun kunitoki - vinonaamakasio
slaraffenland - we're on your side
telekinesis! - s/t
the wooden birds - magnolia
akron family - set em wild set em free
harmonic 313 - when machines exceed human intelligence
honaries:
bowerbirds - upper air
black to comm - alphabet 1968
dwayne sodahberk - interdikt
here we go magic - s/t
hudson mohawke - butter
real estate - s/t
Excellent list Leigh!
There's quite a few I've missed - like: lonely island, torngat. dirty projectors, and heather woods broderick - which I will definately try to check out soon.
Forgot that the Akron Family album came out last year, it's a really good album.
Hope you have a lovely New Year x
Thanks everyone for you comments. I really appretiate it :0)
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