7/1/12 (The Final Episode)

stereolab - les aimies des memes - the free design (single)
alan shearer - tom brousse - the marathon life
bauhaus - the three shadows, part i - the sky's gone out
the tropic of cancer - distorted horizon - the end of all things

the danse society - the night - heaven is waiting
nico + the faction - my heart is empty - camera obscura

talk talk - the party's over - the party's over
yukihiro takahashi - grand espoir - neuromantic
roberto cacciapaglia feat. ann steel - quite still - the ann steel album

chris & cosey - lament - songs of love & lust
pink and black - miss fortune - sometimes i feel...
absolute body control - automatic i - the lost tapes


broadcast - minim - haha sound
raime - if anywhere was here he would know where we are - if anywhere was here he would know where we are
mohn -  schwarzer schwan - s/t

arthur russell - place i know/kid like you - world of echo
burning star core - (track 2) - three sisters who share an eye
swans - the great annihilator - the great annihilator

x mal deutschland - eiland - tocsin
broken water - thread to connect - tempest
dead can dance - fortune - s/t

cocteau twins - blue bell knoll - blue bell knoll
nico - the end - the end...

6/24/12

beach house - irene - bloom
grass widow - goldilocks zone - internal logic
lower dens - candy - nootropics

roy budd - hallucinations - get carter ost
paul mccartney - secret friend - mccartney ii

sebastien tellier - sedulous - my god is blue
clams casino - leaf - instrumental mixtape ii
serge blenner - phrase vii - la vogue

klaus schulze - stardancer ii - body love vol. ii

tobias bernstrup - enemies of the earth - wierd compilation vol. ii: analogue electronic music 2008
alberich - field radar - nato-uniformen

sword heaven - driving through old town - gone
einsturzende neubauten - yu-gung (futter mein ego) - halber mensch


x mal - deutschland - derwisch - tocsin
antifamily - power gets less - s/t
vazz - endless road - whisper not
fingerprintz - wet job - the very dab


geoff barrow & ben salisbury - inhale - drokk: music inspired by mega city one
mohn - eberpatz 2020 - s/t

6/17/12

raime - retread - s/t
mohn - einrauschen - s/t
liars - wixiw - wixiw

lower dens - lamb - nootropics
experimental products - golden hours - the found tapes

paul mccartney - bogey wobble - mccartney ii
la bambola del dr. caligari - satan's pride - the wrong holiday
the danse society - the hurt - heaven is waiting
the comsat angels - ju ju money - fiction

broken water - seaside - seaside and sedmikrasky

the pipedream - deeper arcades - s/t
deadarkhead -june 28th - oceanside: 1991-1993
belong - come see - common era

tropic of cancer - the dull age - the end of all things
roll the dice - dark thirty - in dust

demdike stare - erosion of mediocrity - elemental part 3: rose
brian hodgson - homeric theme - the tomorrow people: original television music
geoff barrow and ben salisbury - justice one - drokk: music inspired by mega city one

the field - sweet slow baby - looping state of mind
zola jesus - in your nature (david lynch remix) - in your nature 7"

6/10/12

clams casino - unchain me - instrumental mixtape 2
boards of canada - basefree - twoism
holy other - know where - with u

lower dens - nova anthem - nootropics
ford & lopatin & tamaryn - flying dream - 'snakes' b/w 'flying dream'
matthew dear - her fantasy - beams

lindstrom & christabelle - let it happen - real life is no cool
liars -  no. 1 against the rush - wixiw
alan howarth & john carpenter - orientation - escape from new york ost

roll the dice - swing - s/t
serge blenner - phrase v - la vogue

edgar froese - snake bath - kamikaze 1989 ost
geoff barrow & ben salisbury - 301-305 - drokk: music inspired by mega city one
richard pinhas - the last kings of thule 1 - iceland
moevot - voultehtr voaguprueeb - abgzvoryathre 


yoga - fourth eye - megafauna
slant azymuth - black crolyn - s/t
ralph lundsten - prayer 1: hallowed be thy name - ourfather: paternoster


rene hell - maz delete - the hilton
harald grosskopf - b. aldrian - synthesist
jonas reinhardt - arise tempi - music for the tactile dome

alan shearer - white spain -  marathon life
michael garrison - dreams - in the regions of sunreturn
beach house - wishes - bloom

6/3/12

innergaze - in your gaze - mutual dreaming
edgar froese - videophonic - kamikaze 1999 ost
lower dens - lion in winter, pt. 1 - nootropics

joni mitchell - shadows and light - the hissing of summer lawns
depeche mode - halo - violator
d.a.f. - im dschungel der liebe - fur immer

new order - your silent face - power, corruption & lies
the 2 bears - church - be strong

daughn gibson - the day you were born - all hell
kurt vile - downbound train - so outta reach ep
deardarkhead - enough - oceanside: 1991-1993

modern english - dawn chorus - after the snow
and also the trees - there were no bounds - s/t
dead can dance - a passage in time - s/t

bauhaus - the three shadows, part ii - the sky's gone out
balam acab - fragile hope - wander/wonder
aphex twin - (track 5) - selected ambient works, vol. ii (disc 1)

roll the dice - axee - s/t
cluster - in ewigkeit - sowiesoso

d.a. - the eighth planet - odeon

5/20/12

mirroring - cliffs - foreign body
lower dens - propagation - nootropics

bauhaus - spirit - the sky's gone out
can - smoke (e.f.s. no. 59) - flowmotion
slava - file soft control

holy other - yr love - with u
balam acab - expect - wander/wonder
light asylum - heart of dust - s/t

shackleton - wish you better - the drawbar organ eps
roll the dice - into the ground - s/t

scorpion violente - uberschleiss - uberschleiss
alberich - napalm - nato-uniformen
chrisy & cosey - love cuts - songs of love and lust

vazz - endless road - whisper not
balaclavas - lored bored - second sight ep
daughn gibson - a young girl's world - all hell
beach house - troublemaker - bloom

kurt vile - laughing stock - so outta reach ep
michael rother - karussell - flammende herzen

drowning pool - the italian pop song - aphonia
jackson and his computer banda - radio caca - smash
lovelock - the fog - burning sound

5/13/12

martin hannett - first aspect of the same ting - first aspect of the same thing/second aspect of the same thing 7"
drowning pool - black baghdad - aphonia
black rain - lo tek musicm - now i'm just a number: soundtracks 1994-95

jonas reinhardt - neukoln - music for the tactile dome
seefeel - vex - succour
alberich - infrared kommendo - nato-uniformen

d.a.f. - die lippe - fur immer
 chromatics - lady - kill for love
the danse society - angel - heaven is waiting

the soft moon - tiny spiders - s/t
belong - different heart - common era
boards of canada - oirectine - twoism

rrose - worn/scarred - artificial light (1969-1909)
shackleton - music for the quiet hour part one - music for the quiet hour

lower dens - lion in winter, pt. 2 - nootropics
beach house - equal mind - lazuli 7"
daughn gibson - bad guys - all hell

the wolfgang press - heart of stone - sweat box 12"
swans - why are we alive? - white light from the mouth of infinity
king dude - river of gold - tonight's special death

and also the trees - shrine - s/t
dead can dance - ocean - s/t
x mal deutschland - mondlicht - tocsin
solid space - please don't fade away - space museum

5/6/12

beach house - lazuli - lazuli 7"
daughn gibson - ray - all hell

lower dens - alphabet song - nootropics
la bambola del dr. caligari - strawberry creeps - the wrong holiday
chris & cosey - talk to me - songs of love and lust

lovelock - love reaction - burning sound
d.a.f. - kebab-traume - fur immer
roberto cacciapaglia and ann steel - southafternoon - the ann steel album

black dice - carnitas - mr. impossible
space art - juares - play back

synergy - the prophecy-the prophecy fulfilled/warriors - the jupiter menace ost
ralph lundsten - amen - ourfather: paternoster
alberich - powershock ii - nato-uniformen

windy & carl - the frost in winter - we will always be
mirroring - mine - foreign body

throbbing gristle - the valley of the shadow of death - d.o.a. the third and final report
drowning pool - din - aphonia
the danse society - somewhere - heaven is waiting

xmal deutschland - tag fur tag - tocsin
of a mesh - crazy house - s/t ep
tile - friend stealer - friend stealer/hitchhiker 7"

4/22/12

sightings - castle moat - castle moat/invisible coats 7"
tile - hitchhiker - friend stealer/hitchhiker 7"
of a mesh - damage - broken ep
x mal deutschland - christmas in australia - tocsin

bauhaus - departure - she's in parties 12"
les larmes - i run away - live
the wolfgang press - muted - sweatbox 12"

drowning pool - chevalier macgregor - aponia
demdike stare - erosion of mediocrity - elemental part 3: rose

synergy - alien earth - the jupiter menace ost
alberich - atlantic munitions development - nato-uniformen
sermonizer - acid86 to dica68 - sibelius spiders

synergy - alien earth - the jupiter menace ost
alberich - atlantic munitions development - nato-uniformen
sermonizer - acid86 to dica68 - sibelius spiders

roll the dice - the new black - live in gothenberg: august 7, 2010

d.a. - clover - odeon
yoga - haunted brain - megafauna

insect factory - new incision - melodies from a dead radio
mirroring - drowning the call - foreign body

4/8/12

chromatics - these streets will never look the same - kill for love
la bambola del dr. caligari - deep skanner - the wrong holiday

d.a.f. - prinzessin - fur immer
cabaret voltaire - hells home - the arm of the lord
chris & cosey - driving blind - songs of love & lust

cicciolina holocaust - in tempore non suspecto - albeit, albeit
alberich - god and faith - nato-uniformen

tangerine dream - rain forest - sorcerer ost
john carpenter & alan howarth - police state/romero and the president - escape from new york ost
tomita - the gnome - pictures at an exhibition
dudley simpson - the tomorrow people theme - the tomorrow people: original television music

roll the dice - undertow - live in gothenburg: august 7, 2010

bomis prendin - hell's little ransom - film noir american style: cassette 1
the sisters of mercy - alice - alice 12"
//tense// - pulse beat - escape 12"

doris norton - personal computer - personal computer
roberto cacciapaglia & ann steel - find your way - the ann steel album
suzanne ciani - lixiviation - lixiviation

insect factory - globes - melodies from a dead radio
liars - greyscale - mute: vorwarts
mirroring - silent from above - foreign body

4/1/12

mirroring - mirror of our sleeping - foreign body
daughn gibson - tiffany lou - all hell
kurt vile - (so outta reach) - so outta reach ep

fuhrs & frohling - dance of the leaves - ammerland
ralph lundsten - prayer 3: thy will be done - ourfather (paternoster)
yoga - dreamcast - megafauna

majeure - atlantis purge - brainstorm (split with steve moore)

chris & cosey - garden of the pure - songs of love & lust
cabaret voltaire - whip blow - the arm of the lord
d.a.f. - die gotter sind weiss - fur immer

la bambola del dr. caligari - blue soldier - the wrong holiday
five or six - another reason - another reason 7"
war - kains maerke - at war for youth 7"

factrix - splice of lie - empire of passion/splice of life 7"
mass - cross purposes - labour of love
in camera - final achievement - final achievement/die laughing 7"

balaclavas - second sight - second sight 12"
modern english - smiles & laughter - smiles and laughter 7"
and also the trees - so this is silence - s/t
magazine - give me everything - give me everything 7"

antifamily - j'avance - s/t
jungle nausea - alternative - s/t 12"
lucas trouble - le rendez-vous des purs - le roy defigure
pere ubu - navvy - dub housing

3/25/12

lee hazlewood - come on home to me - requiem for an almost lady
daughn gibson - in the beginning - all hell
kitty craft - par 5 - beats and breaks from the flower patch
kaada - burden - thank you for giving me your valuable time

saint etienne - former lover - tiger bay
kurt vile - it's alright - so outta reach ep
all night radio - sad k. - spirit stereo frequency

al stewart - beleeka doodle day - bed-sitter images
the clientele - haunted melody - the violet hour
baths - rain smell - cerulean

aphex twin - the beauty of being numb section b - 26 mixes for cash
robert fripp - urban landscape - sacred songs
ashrae fax - pointbreak - static crash
cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas - heaven or las vegas

look blue go purple - circumspect penelope - s/t
the go-betweens - unkind & unwise - spring hill fair
the crystal set - she counts up the days - a drop in the ocean/she counts up the days

modern eon - euthenics - euthenics
electric guitars - continental shelf - health
restricted code - monkey monkey monkey - love to meet you
ultravox - young savage - live retro

comsat angels - eye of the lens - enz
freur - all too much - doot-doot
roberto cacciapaglia and ann steel - portrait

dorothy - softness - i confess
mort garson - walking in space - electronic hair pieces
claude denjean - nights in white satin - moog!

3/18/12

mirroring - fell sound - foreign body
shriekback - evaporation - care
five or six - the trial - another reason 7"

eyeless in gaza - invisibility - invisibility 7"
prinzhorn dance school - happy in bits - clay class
the residents - kaw-liga - kaw-liga 7"

war - at war for youth - at war for youth
chrome - eyes in the center - red exposure
pere ubu - navvy - dub housing
comsat angels - mass - enz

antifamily - without delay - s/t
vazz - cast reflections - whisper not
d.a.f. - wer schon sein will muss leiden - fur immer
alberich - engaged - nato-uniformen

slant azymuth - helicial scan - s/t
ralph lundsten - prayer 5: forgive us our tresspasses - fadervar (paternoster)

tangerine dream - creation - sorcerer ost
naux - the deepest parts - film noir american style
bruce gilbert - the shivering man - the shivering man

cicciolina holocaust - zigomar - albeit albeit
mass - you and i - labour of love

in camera - die laughing - final achievement/die laughing 7"
the native cats - little me belongs to little you - community-a compilation of hobart music
silver apples - oscillations - s/t
suzanne ciani - live buchla concert 1975 - lixiviation
brian hodgson & delia derbyshire - restless relays - the tomorrow people: original television music

3/11/12

lower dens - brains - nootropics
vazz - want of anger - whisper not
pulsallama - ungawa pt. ii (way out guiana) - the devil lives in my husband's body 7"
siouxsie & the banshees - coal mind - fireworks 7"

the danse society - woman's own - woman's own 12"
ashrae fax - daddystitch - static crash
yaz - good times - you and me both
chris & cosey - walking through heaven - songs of love & lust

harald grosskopf - eve on the hill - oceanheart

suzanne ciani - princess with orange feet - lixiviation
fuhrs & froeling - ammernoon - ammerland
sermonizer - mystery - sibelius spiders
slant azymuth - intervision 3 - s/t

eyeless in gaza - three kittens - invisibility 7"
brian hodgson - whirring menace - the tomorrow people
ralph lundsten - prayer 2-the kingdom come - fadervar (paternoster)

alberich - immortality is no consolation for death - nato-uniformen: manual 16
tangerine dream - the journey - sorcerer ost

alan howarth & john carpenter - the duke arrives/the barricade - escape from new york ost
rrose - white/drip - artificial light (1969-1909)
chromatics - dark day - in the city ep 12"

burial - kindred - kindred

3/4/12

throbbing gristle - distant dreams [part two] - the industrial records story
patrick vasori & jan yrssen - radiations - transparence
brian hodgson - gothic submarines - the tomorrow people
daryl hall feat. robert fripp - the farther away i am - sacred songs

harald grosskopf - pondicherry dream - oceanheart
michael garrison - dreams - in the regions of sunreturn
steve moore - dawn of primordial life - in the regions of sunreturn

alan howarth and john carpenter - the president at the train
black meteoric star - death tunnel - death tunnel 12"

lime - your love (re-mix) - your love
space - prison - deliverance
chromatics - lady - in the city 12"

yaz - sweet thing - you and me both
ashrae fax - ectome - static crash
chris & cosey - tantalize - songs of love & lust

d.a.f. - ein bisschen krieg - fur immer
wolf eyes - always wrong - always wrong
war - brodermordet - at war for youth

eyeless in gaza - lilt of music - sun bursts in
vazz - lost time - whisper not
balaclavas - mecca - inferno 12"
the danse society - belief - woman's own

and also the trees - midnight garden - s/t
sermonizer - rosalita - sibelius spiders
suzanne ciani - eighth wave - lixiviation

2/19/12

jane weaver - majic milk - the watchbird alluminate
windy & carl - for rosa - we will always be
grouper & ilyas ahmed - burn/out - visitor

la dusseldorf - sentimental - individuellos
demdike stare - falling off the edge - elemental part 3: rose

alan howarth & john carpenter - over the wall - escape from new york ost
rene hell - lighthouse marvel - the terminal symphony
edgar froese - blue panther - kamikaze 1989 ost
jurgen muller - chasing submarines - science of the sea

steve moore - enhanced humanoid - brainstorm
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - track 5 - track 5 12"

gino soccio - the visitors - outline
cybotron - el salvador - clear
e.m.a.k. - filmmusik - a synthetic history of e.m.a.k. 1982-88

jean michel jarre - oxygene part vi - oxygene
stereolab - equivalences - not music
air (feat. victoria legrand) - seven stars - le voyage dans la lune

vangelis - reve - opera sauvage

tin man - winterize - vienna blue
burial - loner - kindred
boards of canada - smokes quantity - music has the right to children

(Radiowave Distortion) 2/18/12

the tuss - rushup i bank 12 - rushup edge
our love will destroy the world - polished glass autobahn - polished glass autobahn 7"

jurgen muller - oxygen bubbles - science of the sea
cut copy - future - bright like neon love
kuruki - such a liar - such a liar 12"
chrisma - black silk stocking - chinese restaurant

the flowerpot men - jo's so mean - s/t 12"
the sisters of mercy - 1969 - alice 12"
bauhaus - jagartija nick - jagartija nick 12"

bauhaus - wrong side of the bars - snake people
e.m.a.k. - wenn mr. reagan es will - elektronische musik aus koeln
einsturzende neubauten - abfackelni - drawings of patient ot
sightings - a rest - through the panama

vaz - forgotten classic - demonstrations in micronesia
clockcleaner - midnight beach - auf-wiedersehen
killing joke - lust almighty - fire dances

second layer - distortion - world of rubber
the comsat angels - mass - enz
tamaryn - coral flower - the waves

ashrae fax - pointbreak - static crash
cocteau twins - mizake the mizan - iceblink luck 7"
matthew dear - innh dahh - slowdance ep

tom recchion - flying weather - chaotica
michael rother - katzenmuzik 12 - katzenmuzik
the advisory circle with hong kong in the 60s - seasons change - ghost box study series vol. 2: cycles and seasons

turn on - gimmickry hoax sensation - s/t
mort garson - be in - electronic hair pieces
tom dissevelt & kid baltan - the ray makers - song of the second moon

broadcast - mother's milk means music (at home in the universe) - mother is the milky way
all night radio - oh, when? - spirit stereo frequency
neutral milk hotel - marching theme - on avery island
u.s. girls - state house (it's a man's world) - on kraak

i.u.d. - daddy - the proper sex
suicide - speedqueen - the first rehearsal tapes
the flying lizards - tube - tv 7"

plastic bertrand - tout petit la planete - tout petit la planete 7"
nash the slash - in a glass eye - novel romance 7"
siouxsie & the banshees - cannibal roses - slowdive 7"
peter gabriel - at night - birdy ost

2/12/12

donna summer - i feel love - i remember yesterday
michael garrison - for you and me - in the regions of sunreturn
boards of canada - the color of the fire - music has the right to children
kid 606 - if my heart ran away it would be looking for the day when right beside you it could forever stay - the soccergirl ep

gino soccio - there's a woman - outline

nine inch nails - sanctified - pretty hate machine
the soft moon - dead love - s/t
dead can dance - in power we entrust the love advocated - the garden of the arcane delights

joy division - atmosphere - substance
liars - the other side of mt. heart attack - drum's not dead
my bloody valentine - to here knows when - tremolo ep

cocteau twins - love's easy tears - love's easy tears
lower dens - i get nervous - twin hand movement
bad temple - creatures of the hear,t pt. 1 - creatures of the heart
nick cave and the bad seeds - the ship song - the good son

david bowie - wild is the wind - station to station
the aluminum group - impress me - pedals
they might be giants - sapphire bullets of pure love - flood

saint etienne - kiss and make up - smash the system: singles and more
trans am - a different kind of love - ta
giorgio moroder - different kind of love - ta

the brothers johnson - strawberry letter 23 (disco version) - strawberry letter 23 12"
stevie wonder - i love every little thing about you - music of my mind
the dirty projectors - fluorescent half dome - bitte orca

2/5/12

grouper & ilyas ahmed - flickering - visitor
disco inferno - waking up - in debt
silver apples - velvet cave - s/t

harry partch - daphne of the dunes - the world of harry partch

daphne oram - passacaglia - oramics
roberto cacciapaglia - 2nd movement of sonanze - sonanze

herbert brun - futility 1964 - electronic music from the univeristy of illinois
tangerine dream - abyss - sorcerer/ost

delia derbyshire - freeze frame - electrosonic
giampiero boneschi - saturns ambush - barry 7's connectors vol. 2
innergaze - change it up - we are strange loops
steve moore - null space - brainstorm

tin man - cool wave - cool wave
chris & cosey - trust - trust
ashrae fax - dynamite dust - static crash

cocteau twins - spooning good singing gum - blue bell knoll
blues control & laraaji - light ships - frkwys vol. 8

dead can dance - indoctrination (a design for living) - spleen and ideal
and also the trees - talk without words - s/t
closed session - it's time to go - song for sale

1/29/12

tin man - ice blue eyes - vienna blue
matthew dear - headcage - headcage ep
kuruki - such a liar - such a liar 12"

vivien vee - alright - alright/sex appeal 12"
giorgio moroder - utopia-me giorgio - from here to eternity
black devil - "h" friend - disco club

nash the slash - novel romance - novel romance 7"
alan howarth and john carpenter - airforce #1 - escape from new york ost
michael garrison - theme to onday - in the regions of sunreturn

peak - nightmist - ebondazzar
steve moore - alternate quantum realities - brainstorm
edgar froese - police disco - kamikaze 1989

jean michel jarre - oxygene part iv - oxygene
innergaze - perception-reception - we are strange loops
chris & cosey - illusion - trust

ashrae fax - ultravaca - static crash
balaclavas - hard pose - snake people
the danse society - we're so happy - woman's own 12"

wire - on returning - 154
bruce gilbert - net in the feather - the shivering man
throbbing gristle - ab/7a - d.o.a. the third and final report of

blues control & laraaji - city of love - frkwys, vol. 8
silver apples - misty mountain - s/t

1/15/12

tropic of cancer - a color - the sorrow of two blooms
jimmy page - (side b) - kenneth anger's lucifer rising soundtrack

jonas reinhardt - leaving the touch taboo - music for the tactile dome
edgar froese - krismopompas - kamikaze 1989 ost
morphosis - spiral - what have we learned

darkside - (a3) - s/t
demdike stare - mnemosyne - elemental part 2: violetta

byla - open door - s/t
conrad schnitzler - metall 1 - ballet statique
alberich - venusberg - psychology of love

espelndor geometrico - baraca - shiekh aljama
zyklon - kelvin - the heartland
bruce gilbert - hommage - the shivering man
cabaret voltaire - animation - the crackdown

league of nations - illuminas - music for the new depression
michael garrison - escape - in the regions of sunreturn
michael hoenig - sun and moon - departure from the northern wasteland

blues control & laraaji - awakening day - frkways vol. 8
area c - sea of serenity - sea of rains

michael shrieve - view from the window - transfer station blue
peter gabriel - at night - birdy ost

1/8/12

nick cave & the bad seeds - running scared - the singer 12"
king dude - my everlasting life - tonight's special death
grouper - vapor trails - a i a : alien observer

jimmy page - (side a) - kenneth anger's lucifer rising

demdike stare - mephisto's lament - elemental part 1: chrysanthe
bruce gilbert - angel food - the shivering man

einsturzende neubauten - zeichnungen des patienten o.t. - zeichnungen des patienten o.t.
cabaret voltaire - why kill time (when you can kill yourself) - the crackdown
balaclavas - shit meridian - snake people

the danse society - continent - woman's own 12"
second layer - definition of honour - world of rubber
and also the trees - impulse of man - s/t

siouxsie & the banshees - bring me the head of the preacher man - hyaena
cocteau twins - the itchy glowbo blow - blue bell knoll
tin man - energia - cool wave

grace jones - unlimited capacity for love - living my life
darkside - (track 1) - s/t ep

stereolab - silver sands (emperor machine mix) - not music
zola jesus - hikikomori - conatus

Top (read: favorite) Albums of 2011

I'd kind of gotten away from doing these year-end lists, which I've always loved. In a lot of ways, it's a very arbitrary act, owing a lot to my whim at the moment I decide to commit to the order set before me, and subject to change at any moment. But it's also a lot of fun, and an excuse to pay even more attention to the music I enjoy, respect and admire. I'd say the list was determined by those last three factors. That and, again, whim. An objective determination of quality, this is not.

1. Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer / A I A : Dream Loss

2. The Field - Looping State Of Mind

3. P.G. Six - Starry Mind

4. Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure

5. Morphosis - What Have We Learned

6. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

7. The Native Cats - Process Praise

8. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

9. Bibio - Mind Bokeh (except for the horrid "Take Off Your Shirt," it should be noted)

10. Alberich - Psychology Of Love

11. Metal Mountains - Golden Trees

12. Belong - Common Era

13. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

14. Jonas Reinhardt - Music For The Tactile Dome

15. Balaclavas - Snake People

16. Silk Flowers - Ltd. Form

17. Roll The Dice - In Dust

18. U.S. Girls - U.S. Girls on KRAAK

19. The Sea And Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly

20. Zola Jesus - Conatus

Other albums of note (in no particular order): Zombi - Escape Velocity, Steve Moore - Primitive Neural Pathways, Total Control - Henge Beat, Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972, Panda Bear - Tomboy, Natural Snow Buildings - Waves Of The Random Sea, Maria Minerva - Tallinn At Dawn, M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, Kyle Bobby Dunn - Ways Of Meaning, Dream Diary - You Are The Beat, Charalambides - Exile, Household - Items, Shoppers - Silver Year



Samples of the Top 20:

1. Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer / A I A : Dream Loss




2. The Field - Looping State Of Mind




3. P.G. Six - Starry Mind




4. Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure




5. Morphosis - What Have We Learned




6. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves




7. The Native Cats - Process Praise



and, for a better sense of how they sound on the album:

The Native Cats - Dani Dani by Noise, Etc.



8. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo




9. Bibio - Mind Bokeh (except for the horrid "Take Off Your Shirt," it should be noted)




10. Alberich - Psychology Of Love




11. Metal Mountains - Golden Trees




12. Belong - Common Era




13. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer




14. Jonas Reinhardt - Music For The Tactile Dome




15. Balaclavas - Snake People




16. Silk Flowers - Ltd. Form

Silk Flowers - LTD FORM - Chance (post present medium) by pdis_inpartmaint


17. Roll The Dice - In Dust




18. U.S. Girls - U.S. Girls on KRAAK




19. The Sea And Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly




20. Zola Jesus - Conatus

1/1/12 (2011 wrap-up)

grouper - moon is sharp - a i a: alien observer
kurt vile - society is my friend - smoke ring for my halo

the sea and cake - the moonlight butterfly - the moonlight butterfly
zombi - slow oscillations - escape velocity
jonas reinhardt - to lord eminence - music for the tactile dome
silk flowers - fruit of the vine - ltd. form

the native cats - wearing the killer - process praise
balaclavas - wrong side of the bars - snake people
nicolas jaar - too many kids finding rain in the dust - space is only noise

john maus - hey moon - we must become the pitiless censors of ourselves
belong - very careful - common era
alberich - rumbala - psychology of love
zola jesus - avalanche - conatus

morphosis - gate of night - what have we learned
ford & lopatin - gate of night - channel pressure
bibio - anything new - mind bokeh

the field - burned out - looping state of mind
hercules & love affair - blue songs - blue songs

peaking lights - all the sun that shines - 936
u.s. girls - island song - u.s. girls on kraak

eleanor friedberger - owl's head park - last summer
p.g. six - january - starry mind
metal mountains - prisms - golden trees