2012 aoty

[Jowy]

or "album of the year"!

gonna be a three-way between The Money Store, Synthetica, and Born to Die.

What'd you like the most this year?

[Mirage]

I haven't heard of any of those.

[Jowy]

well maybe you should!

NOT GETTING BANNED FOR LINKING MONEY STORE COVER ART but you can download it off Death Grips' website

METRIC | SYNTHETICA - Can stream Synthetica

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (the album) - YouTube -

[Shorty]

jesus christ, so many people released albums that I hadn't heard of!

fun. - Some Nights has to be it for me, since I am sorely not caught up at all with 2012 albums.

[Jowy]

check out the metric album, you'll adore it.

[Mirage]

Those two thingies you linked are actually pretty darn good. I'm almost surprised you listen to this!

I'll listen a lot more to it tomorrow when it's not "time to go to bed 5 hours ago" o'clock

[The Man]

Incomplete list of stuff I've enjoyed a lot that was released this year. Anything on this list could be considered a recommendation for anyone who enjoys the genre the album is recorded in, especially the bold stuff, which I regard as masterpieces.

Änglagård - Viljans öga
David Arnold and Michael Price - Sherlock OST (both volumes)
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Botanist - III: Doom in Bloom/Allies
Carbonscape - Artistry of Exhaustion III
Deathspell Omega - Drought
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (2CD version)
Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones Season 2 OST
Dordeduh - Dar de duh
Drudkh - Вічний Оберт Колеса [Eternal Turn of the Wheel]
Enslaved - Riitiir
A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Giles Corey - Deconstructionist
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
Ihsahn - Eremita
Inverloch - Dusk | Subside
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
Kólga - Demo
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Lake of Blood - The Burial Grounds Sessions
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Magma - Félicité Thösz
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Panopticon - Kentucky
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Swans - The Seer
Trampled by Turtles - Stars and Satellites
Vattnet Viskar - Vattnet Viskar
Wintersun - Time I
Wodensthrone - Curse

If reissues count, throw Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography onto that list as well.

This list is nowhere near complete. There's still a lot of stuff I haven't listened to at all or enough to form an opinion on, including obvious stuff like Springsteen, Ulver, and Neurosis, so I will very likely add a lot of stuff to this list.

I don't have anywhere near enough self-control to narrow this down to an album of the year. If you're lucky you might get a list of about five albums that are clearly better than all the others, but I doubt it. Those bolded albums are probably as much as I can narrow it down.

[Pheesh]

Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise

Not even a contest for me, best debut album I've heard by any band since Karnivool's 'Themata'

[charliepanayi]

I'll do a proper list at the end of the month but for now I suspect my top three will be Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Passion Pit and Fiona Apple.

[krissy]

I'll do a proper list at the end of the month but for now I suspect my top three will be Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Passion Pit and Fiona Apple.

those are in my list also

i'll check out synthetica tonight

and post the list near the end of the year!

[Night Fury]

Lana Del Rey

Summertime Sadness is probably my fav track, too.

[escobert]

Guess it didn't really come out in 2012 but the only "new" album I got or even listened to was Doomtree's No Kings.

[Jowy]

Lana Del Rey

Summertime Sadness is probably my fav track, too.

off to the races. every day until you love it.

[Denmark]

i guess born to die is the only album i know from 2k12

pretty dang good album tho

swingin in the backyard pull up in your fast car whistlin' my name

[Shoeberto]

I didn't buy much "new" music in 2012, mostly old albums I was discovering for the first time.

I've heard a ton of rave reviews for Lana Del Rey though. I'll have to check her out soon.