Best Albums Of 2012 - So Far

[Modry Effekt]

Top 5 albums of the year

1. OM - Advaitic Songs
2. SWANS - The Seer
3. GOAT - World Music
4. GUARDIAN ALIEN - See the World Given to a One Love Entity
5. VESPERO - Subkraut: U-Boats Willkommen Hier


The essential

AL DOUM & THE FARYDS - Positive Force
ALUK TODOLO - Occult Rock
ÄNGLAGARD - Viljans Öga
ARGOS - Cruel Symmetry
AYAHUASCA DARK TRIP - Mind Journey
BIOTA - Cape Flyaway
BLISCAPPEN VAN MARIA - Bliscepen
BONG - Mana-Yood-Sushai
CAMERA - Radiate!
CHEF MENTEUR - East of the Sun & West of the Moon
CONTRASTATE - A Breeding Ground for Flies
COSMIC DEAD - The Cosmic Dead
DEMDIKE STARE - Elemental
DIAGONAL - The Second Mechanism
LEISURE BIRDS - Globe Master
LUMERIANS - Transmissions From Telos vol. IV
MECHANIMAL - Mechanimal
MOONWAGON - Foyers of the Future
ORNTITHOS - La Trasfigurazione
SATURNIA - α Ω α (Αlpha Omega Alpha)
STARVING WEIRDOS - Land Lines
SULA BASSANA - Dark Days
SUN DIAL - Mind Control
THE WANDERING MIDGET - From the Meadows of Opium Dreams
THINKING PLAGUE - Decline and Fall
VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION - Quicksand
John ZORN - Mount Analogue


The must listens

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Worship
AHAB - The Giant
AHMED, Ilyas - With endless fire
AKATOMBO - False Positives
ALPHATAURUS - AttosecondO
ANDERSON, Ian - Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?
AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR - Third
ARC OF ASCENT - The Higher Key
ARKTAU EOS - Ioh-Maera
ASTRA - The Black Chord
ASTRALASIA - Voyage Till Tomorrow
aTelecine - Sounds That Gods Fear (Welcome to Cosmic Nightmare Culture)
BABY GURU - Pieces
BABY WOODROSE - Third Eye Surgery
BACIO DELLA MEDUSA, Il - Deus Lo Vult
BAILIFF, Jessica - At the Down - Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky
BARRETT ELMORE - Woodlands
BIG BIG TRAIN - English Electric, Part One
BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - Light the Fires!
BOSQUES - Eomaia Nam
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – Aufheben
COLOUR HAZE - She Said
CONAN - Monnos
COSMIC GARDEN - Sun Secrets
CRANIUM PIE - The Geometry of Thistles
CROWNED IN EARTH - A Vortex of Earthly Chimes
CRYSTAL THOUGHTS - 1435 Miles
DANIELL, David & McCOMBS, Douglas - Versions
DECIMUS - 11
EL DOOM & THE BORN ELECTRIC - El Doom & the Born Electric
ELECTRIC ORANGE - XX
EXPO '70 - Journey Through Astral Projection
EYE- Center of the sun
FANTASTIKOI HXOI - Fantastikoi Hxoi (Imaginary Sounds)
FENNESZ - Aun: The Beginning and the End of All Things
FLOORIAN - Cosmosaic
GNOD - Chaudelande (vol. 2)
HIDRIA SPACEFOLK – Astronautica
HIGH ON FIRE - De Vermis Mysteriis
IMBOGODOM - And They Turned Not When They Went
INFINITY PEOPLE - In Love with the Light
ISENGRIND - Night of Raining Fire
KADAVAR- Kadavar
KOI POND - So Higher
KONER, Thomas - Novaya Zemlya
KOSMONAUT - Voyage of Time
LED ER EST - The Diver
LOCANDA dELLE FATE - The Missing Fireflies
LOCRIAN & MAMIFFER - Bless Them That Curse You
LUGNORO - Annorstädes
MAGIC CASTLES - Magic Castles
MARRAN - Mårran
MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Inverted Triangle III
MONTIBUS COMMUNITAS - Montibus Communitas (Mountains Community)
MOON DUO - Cirles
MOORE, Steve - Light Echoes
MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL - Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Mr. PETER HAYDEN - Born a Trip
MY SLEEPING KARMA - Soma
NAAM - The Ballad of the Starchild
NECRO DEATHMORT - The Colonial Script
NECRONOMICON - Haifische
NO-NECK BLUES BAND - CINo51
OBLIVION SUN - The High Places
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - Phaze Your Fears
PALLBEARER - Sorrow and Extinction
PHARAOH OVERLORD - Lunar Jetman
PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE, La -Tebe
PLANKTON WAT – Spirits
PRETTY LIGHTNING - There Are Witches in the Woods
PSYCHO PRAXIS - Echoes From the Deep
PYRAMIDAL - Dawn in Space
QLUSTER - Antwarten
RM74 - Two Angles of a Triangle
RUNAWAY TOTEM - Affreschi e meditazione
SLAVES, The - Spirits of the Sun
SLOMATICS - A Hocht
SOLAR FIELDS - Random Friday
SYLVESTER ANFANG II - Perzische Tapijten
TEE - Trans-Europe Expression
TUSMORKE - Underjordisk tusmørke
UFOMAMMUT - Oro: Opus Primum & Opus Alter
ULAAN MARKHOR - Ulaan Markhor
USE OF ASHES - White Nights - Flake of Eternity
VIBRAVOID - Gravity Zero
VOLCANO THE BEAR - Golden Rhythm / Ink Music
WIGHT - Through the Woods Into Deep Water
WINDHAND - Windhand
WITCHSORROW - God Curse Us



Best Reissues of the year

BABA SCHOLAE - 69
SEMA - Time Will Say Nothing (1982 - 1984) (4xLP Box)


Biggest disappointments

ECHOLYN - Echolyn
WITCHCRAFT - Legend
BEARDFISH - Void
CLOUDLAND CANYON - Aureliua
MOSTLY AUTUMN - The Ghost Moon Orchestra
SPIRITUALIZED - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Ascent
WOVEN HAND - The Laughing Stalk
MUSE - The 2nd Law
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - Ghostory
EMERALDS - Just to Feel Anything
ETERNAL TAPESTRY - A World Out Of Time
SABBATH ASSEMBLY - Ye Are Gods
BLUT AUS NORD - 777: Cosmosophy
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR – Don’t Bend, Ascend!

SPYROS list is THE LIST.Thank you brother!

[Modry Effekt]

I got new Hokr and yet again they put together great album. It has the sound in the best tradition of Czech undeground music (PPU, DG307) , some VDGG feel with also litlle bit harder edge to it than that their previous albums. I heard it only once but based on my first impression it is definetely in my top 5 for 2012. I would definetely recommend it.

Wow,this needs highest attention.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I got new Hokr and yet again they put together great album.

Where can we all get new Hokr? Any of the usual retailers?

[TheH]

Where can we all get new Hokr? Any of the usual retailers?

Please, I really need this one! I'm looking for Hokrova Villa also. Somebody must be selling them.

[TheH]

Where can we all get new Hokr? Any of the usual retailers?

Hopefully I managed to get it from here:

http://www.drevenacikada.cz/index.ph...1&keyword=Hokr

[Scrotum Scissor]

I'm looking for Hokrova Villa also.

As am I!

[batis]

I sell them normally for $16 plus $2.98 s&h in the US. Going elsewhere, the shipping cost would be adjusted accordingly. If you want some, PM me with address. Thanks for your interest , Petr

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main/re...A1EY16CFMLY9B3

[NogbadTheBad]

I got new Hokr and yet again they put together great album. It has the sound in the best tradition of Czech undeground music (PPU, DG307) , some VDGG feel with also litlle bit harder edge to it than that their previous albums. I heard it only once but based on my first impression it is definetely in my top 5 for 2012. I would definetely recommend it.

That is excellent.

[Shadow]

Quote Originally Posted by Progmatic View Post
I got new Hokr and yet again they put together great album. It has the sound in the best tradition of Czech undeground music (PPU, DG307) , some VDGG feel with also litlle bit harder edge to it than that their previous albums. I heard it only once but based on my first impression it is definetely in my top 5 for 2012. I would definetely recommend it.

I just watched the video, it was okay. Not groundbreaking by any means. I could listen to it while doing something around the house, but forget about blaring it in the car riding around trying to pick up chicks.

[TheH]

As am I!

I was able to get both from the link above that I posted (and the one they did as Poco Loco). And they are really worth getting!
(you can pay by Paypal and they costed me about 12 EUR a piece including p&p)

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

As am I!

The copies of Hokrova Villa that Petr has have new packaging(improved IMHO), but the music is the same. Highly recommended!

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

If you like the HOKR's, he also has one by a band called Abigail which is a spin-off band and a lighter version of HORK. If you buy the VDGG comparison(I do), it's like the VdGG of Least we can do/H to He(HOKR) vs Still Life(Abigail). Also recommended.

[Sputnik]

Somewhere in this thread Macroscream got mentioned. I got this on Monday. I've only listened to it once, but wow, I was super impressed. A modern take on Gentle Giant.

I was a little skeptical of this one because I wasn't totally sold on the vocals for the samples I heard, but the music won me over. After hearing it, I got used to the vocals pretty quickly. I don't love the guy's voice, but he's a good singer singing some tricky intervals, and it fits the music. So vocals weren't a knockout factor.

Musically, this album is just superb. They've got the chops and they aren't afraid to use them, but it's not a chopsfest. Most of the playing is in support of the compositions. I definitely do not have my head around the arrangements yet, the songs are longer and cover a lot of ground. But it all seems to develop pretty organically, and I definitely didn't find myself bored at any time. Plenty to keep you on your toes with this one.

Glad I took a chance on it, this has the potential to be my favorite from this year.

Bill

[Trane]

interesting ... I'll have to add to this list in retrospect

Aranis - Made In Belgium
Anglagard - Viljans Oga
Magma - Felicite Thosz
Kotebel - Concerto for Piano & Electric Ensemble
Forgas Band Phenomena - Acte V
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall
Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns
Aka Moon - Unison
Fabrizzio Cassol - Strange Fruit >>> my fave that year.
VdGG - Alt
Comus - Out Of The Coma
Elephant9 with R Fiske - Atlantis
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandoras Pinata

Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic - s/t (on Tzadic)
GoGo Penguin - Fanfares
Maalouf, Ibrahim - Wind
Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta
AmAndA - Là où Chimène dort
Young, Neil & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Muffins, The - Mother Tongue
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet
Santana -Shape Shifter

[NogbadTheBad]

Fucking awesome list Hugues

[Trane]

Fucking awesome list Hugues

yeah, 2012 was a rather good year, maybe the best recent year behind 2015 - which happens to be the best (IMHO) since the millenium



We should do that with 2013, 2014... see what we knew at the time and add what we've discovered since...

[rottersclub]

Well, we used to have polls on the old PE. I guess this would be the next best thing.

[The Dark Elf]

2012? Still love Big Big Train's English Electric, Part 1. "Judas Unrepentant" is a classic.

[Firth]

2012? Still love Big Big Train's English Electric, Part 1. "Judas Unrepentant" is a classic.

Definitely[emoji106]

[JKL2000]

The new Flower Kings.

[Tom]

What a year this one was! For both old bands and new.

It’s worth going through this thread just to watch Nogbad keep having to add more favorites…

Really enjoying the Motorpsycho and Agalloch, lately.