BEST RELEASES OF 2012

[Rude Boy Puff]

Yellow Stiches ep is a rager

WE ARE BLUE COLLAR SKINHEADS WORKING CLASS BOOTS AND BRACES BUILT TO LAST

[Rude Boy Puff]

Can't believe I forgot
Frustration-Dying Breed, such a rager.

[New West Crew]

LPs:

1. Propagandhi - Failed States

2. Cheap Girls - Giant Orange

3. Gypsy - Giant's Despair

4. Woolworm - Believe in Ourselves

5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

6. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

7. Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds - I'd Rather Die than Live Forever

8. Mindset - Leave No Doubt

9. Damages - Indignation

10. Baader Brains - New Era Hope Colony

11. Outlook - Our Time is Now

12. Wormburner - S/T LP

Honorable Mentions: Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead, John K Sampson - Provincial, Forgetters - S/T LP, Converge - All the Love We Leave Behind, Plastic Cross - Greyscale Rainbows, When Tigers Fight - Death Songs



Singles and EPs

1. Self Defense Family - Self Immolation Family B/W World Virgins

2. The State Lottery - Fistfuls of Sand

3. The Killer - Obey No One

4. Out of Sight - S/T 7"

5. Holy Fever - S/T 7"

6. Shook Ones - Merriweather Post Pavilion B/W Fancy

7. Holy Fever - Ghost Story B/W There is a Light

8. Converge/Napalm Death - Split 7"

9. Unfun - Caroline

10. Noose - Depraved Indifference

11. Black God - II

12. Growing Stronger - Toxic Fumes

Honorable Mentions: Dead Weight - NWHC, The Free World - Save Yourself, Narrow View - Caught in a Trap, Various Artists - All About Friends Forever V1 and V2, Bridge and Tunnel - Homecoming B/W Mixed/Media/Messages



Demos

1. Xaphen - Demo 2012

2. Chestnut Rd. - Demo 2012

3. Manalive - Pistol to the Head of Modern Man

4. Closet Case - It Doesn't Get Better

5. Blank States - Demo

6. Iron Rain - Demos 2012 Flexi

7. Late Bloomer - Demo 2012

8. Suspect - S/T Demo

9. Gut Feeling - Demo

10. Springtime - Demo 2012

11. Write Off - Terror Compound Demo

12. World War 4 - Demo

Honorable Mentions: Sweet Jesus, Untouch, Clear

[xchadx]

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[keep_it_real]

so much great stuff posted up! i have so much catching up to do, i don't get to listen to music as much as i'd like to anymore.


a few i really liked from 2012:

freddie gibbs - BFK
gucci mane - trap god
hoax - 2nd ep
lil ugly mane - mista thug isolation
culo - my life sucks and i could care less (technically i don't know if this is out yet)
big k.r.i.t. - live from the underground
satan's satyrs - wild beyond belief
future - pluto
horrendous - the chills
joe blow - real recognize real
hooded menace -effigies of evil
chief keef - back from the dead
teitanblood - woven black arteries

[grind/bro]

freddie gibbs - BFK

totally forgot about this album! it's fantastic.

[Corrence]

* B L A C K I E - GEN (acoustic one man thrash rap.)
* Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation (duh)
* Lil B - Gods Father ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
* 情報デスクVIRTUAL - 札幌コンテンポラリー (& pretty much anything those dorks on last.fm tagged as 'vaporwave' and the agonizing chin-stroke article on dummy mag that came with it)
* Actress - R.I.P (the best techno album with virtually no beats)
* discovering the greatness of Arthur Russell and realizing how much contemporary music ripped him the fuck off
* Laurel Halo - Quarantine (2012's weirdo electronic kate bush or something)
* Container - LP2 (techno made by a noise dude with a shitty drum machines, tape player, and some pedals probably)
* Captain Murphy - Duality (never minding the OF links, this stands pretty well on it's own and has gotten sufficient replays to be a contender for favorite)
* How To Dress Well - Total Loss (breakup music for an imagined relationship where you walk in and she cheated on you with some better looking dude so you're all crushed inside and wanna kill yourself but you're too wimpy so you just go for a long walk on a bridge and stare into the distance sighing with a single tear in your eye)
* Lorenzo Senni - Quantum Jelly (goofy ibiza trance stripped down to nothing but endless supersaw arpeggios that build up into nothing)
* Madteo - Noi No (tall, dark, and handsome house made by a guy who understands it but kinda hates it and wants to fuck with people's expectation of the genre)
* Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (the fucking ultimate payoff, well worth waiting another 6 years for just to hear scott walker scream though some sort of harmonic shifter to sound like some baroque demon's nightmare overtop of angry-swarm-of-bees strings and fart noises while a midget hits a gong)
* Terrence Dixon - From the Far Future Part 2 (just good old fashioned dark dystopian detroit techno soundtracks for hunting replicants in the remains of neo-new york)
* making hip hop beats for rappers
* quitting making hip hop beats for rappers in favor of teaching myself music programming languages instead
* Death Grips - money store / no love DEEP WEB (despite the fact I have no clue what the fuck MC ride is talking about, the production bangs and the sinister 'fuck you' tone to both these albums made for some satisfying bike rides around the city at night)
* LE1F - dark york (took a few listens but it holds up as well. rap for people who don't want the standard tropes i.e. poppin bottles / supermodels / bangbang / etc.)
* frank ocean - channel orange vs. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (singin ass dudes singin about what r&b singin ass dudes sing about, you know the score.)

buncha other stuff I forgot, probably those freddie gibbs madlib eps, maybe that TNGHT ep though it got played to fucking DEATH, uhmm

also tweeler akis, that antwon tape has like...2 dope jams and you know it.