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
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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
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
Sunday, December 25, 2011
12/25/11
julie doiron - will you still love me in december? - will you still love me?
hintermass - are you watching? - ghost box study series 05: the open songbook
metabolismus - snowy meadows - the social club no. 7
april march & los cincos - last train to christmas - s/t
philip glass - etoile polaire - north star
22 brides - a coventry christmas carol - a christmas present for you
grouper - wind and snow - dragging a dead deer up a hill
this mortal coil - a single wish - it'll end in tears
cocteau twins - lorelei - treasure
the sea and cake - window lights - split 7" with john mcentire
michael rother - flammende herzen - flammende herzen
neu! - lila engel - 2
broadcast - winter now - ha ha sound
the coctails - first snowfall - a john waters christmas
stringtronics - ballata - mindbender
vince guaraldi trio - what child is this - a charlie brown christmas
belle & sebastian - fox in the snow - if you're feeling sinister
panda bear - winter in st. moritz - s/t
low - one special gift - christmas
tamaryn - choirs of winter - the waves
animal collective - winter's love - sung tongs
the electric prunes - our father, our king
george winston - carol of the bells - december
mogwai - christmas song - ep+2
windy & carl - christmas song - introspection
aisler's set - christmas song - the last match
darlene love - christmas (baby please come home) - phil spector's christmas album
antena - noelle a hawai - camino del sol
fripp & eno - evening star - evening star
hintermass - are you watching? - ghost box study series 05: the open songbook
metabolismus - snowy meadows - the social club no. 7
april march & los cincos - last train to christmas - s/t
philip glass - etoile polaire - north star
22 brides - a coventry christmas carol - a christmas present for you
grouper - wind and snow - dragging a dead deer up a hill
this mortal coil - a single wish - it'll end in tears
cocteau twins - lorelei - treasure
the sea and cake - window lights - split 7" with john mcentire
michael rother - flammende herzen - flammende herzen
neu! - lila engel - 2
broadcast - winter now - ha ha sound
the coctails - first snowfall - a john waters christmas
stringtronics - ballata - mindbender
vince guaraldi trio - what child is this - a charlie brown christmas
belle & sebastian - fox in the snow - if you're feeling sinister
panda bear - winter in st. moritz - s/t
low - one special gift - christmas
tamaryn - choirs of winter - the waves
animal collective - winter's love - sung tongs
the electric prunes - our father, our king
george winston - carol of the bells - december
mogwai - christmas song - ep+2
windy & carl - christmas song - introspection
aisler's set - christmas song - the last match
darlene love - christmas (baby please come home) - phil spector's christmas album
antena - noelle a hawai - camino del sol
fripp & eno - evening star - evening star
Sunday, December 4, 2011
12/4/11
chasing voices - acidbathory - acidbathory
conrad schnitzler - zug - ballet statique
roll the dice - maelstrom - in dust
cluster - halwa - sowiesoso
grouper - she loves me that way (second heart tone) - a i a: alien observer
rihanna - you da one - talk that talk
suzy q - computer music (dub mix) - computer music 12"
chris & cosey - watching you - trust
cabaret voltaire - over and over - the crackdown
league of nations - index of motion - music for the new depression
//tense// - pull the strings - escape
synergy - delta one - games
michael garrison - for you and me - in the regions of sunreturn
edgar froese - unexpected death - kamikaze 1989 ost
d.a. - the owl - odeon
nash the slash - in a glass eye - novel romance
morphosis - gate of night - what have we learned
jonas reinhardt - to lord eminence - music for the tactile dome
cocteau twins - mizake the mizan - iceblink luck 7"
throbbing gristle - hometime - d.o.a. the third and final report of
conrad schnitzler - zug - ballet statique
roll the dice - maelstrom - in dust
cluster - halwa - sowiesoso
grouper - she loves me that way (second heart tone) - a i a: alien observer
rihanna - you da one - talk that talk
suzy q - computer music (dub mix) - computer music 12"
chris & cosey - watching you - trust
cabaret voltaire - over and over - the crackdown
league of nations - index of motion - music for the new depression
//tense// - pull the strings - escape
synergy - delta one - games
michael garrison - for you and me - in the regions of sunreturn
edgar froese - unexpected death - kamikaze 1989 ost
d.a. - the owl - odeon
nash the slash - in a glass eye - novel romance
morphosis - gate of night - what have we learned
jonas reinhardt - to lord eminence - music for the tactile dome
cocteau twins - mizake the mizan - iceblink luck 7"
throbbing gristle - hometime - d.o.a. the third and final report of
Sunday, November 20, 2011
11/20/11
zola jesus - in your nature - conatus
david lynch feat. karen o. - pinky's dream - crazy clown time
household - desperate times - items
grass widow - tuesday - past time
numbers - i want to believe - now you are this
stereolab - we're not adult orientated (new wave live) - the groop played "space age batchelor pad music"
the sea and cake - up on the north shore - the moonlight butterfly
arthur russell - our last night together - world of echo
talk talk - taphead - laughing stock
charalimbides - desecrated - exile
giorgio moroder feat. david bowie - the myth - cat people ost
throbbing gristle - hit by a rock - d.o.a. the third and final report of
cabaret voltaire - diskono - the crackdown
suicide - radiation - the second album
ric ocasek - jimmy jimmy - beatitude
the sisters of mercy - first and last and always - first and last and always
bauhaus - lagartija nick - lagartija nick 12"
balaclavas - standard channels - snake people
conrad schnitzler - black nails - ballet statique
gary numan - replicas - replicas
the raincoats - only tonight - looking in the shadows
look blue go purple - year of the tiger - s/t
david lynch feat. karen o. - pinky's dream - crazy clown time
household - desperate times - items
grass widow - tuesday - past time
numbers - i want to believe - now you are this
stereolab - we're not adult orientated (new wave live) - the groop played "space age batchelor pad music"
the sea and cake - up on the north shore - the moonlight butterfly
arthur russell - our last night together - world of echo
talk talk - taphead - laughing stock
charalimbides - desecrated - exile
giorgio moroder feat. david bowie - the myth - cat people ost
throbbing gristle - hit by a rock - d.o.a. the third and final report of
cabaret voltaire - diskono - the crackdown
suicide - radiation - the second album
ric ocasek - jimmy jimmy - beatitude
the sisters of mercy - first and last and always - first and last and always
bauhaus - lagartija nick - lagartija nick 12"
balaclavas - standard channels - snake people
conrad schnitzler - black nails - ballet statique
gary numan - replicas - replicas
the raincoats - only tonight - looking in the shadows
look blue go purple - year of the tiger - s/t
Sunday, November 13, 2011
11/13/11
//tense// - body conscious - escape ep
zola jesus - shivers - conatus
section 25 - reflection - from the hip
zombi - shrunken heads - escape velocity
michael garrison - the search - in the regions of sunreturn
jonas reinhardt - eos, the dawn - music for the tactile dome
throbbing gristle - weeping - d.o.a. the third and final report of
batz without flesh - the notion - no memory
front 242 - the untold - tyranny for you
the sisters of mercy - phantom - alice 12"
balaclavas - wrong side of the bars - snake people
genders - slip into the nightcrawlers club - there's something in the treats
cabaret voltaire - premonition - the voice of america
ceramic hello - footsteps in the fog - the absence of a canary
solid space - contemplation - space museum
oppenheimer analysis - modern wonder - new mexico
stereolab - the groop play chord x - the groop played "space age batchelor pad music"
conrad schnitzler - ballet statique - ballet statique
the field - it's up there - looping state of mind
innergaze - no shame - we are strange loops
d.a. - the hatchling - odeon
zola jesus - shivers - conatus
section 25 - reflection - from the hip
zombi - shrunken heads - escape velocity
michael garrison - the search - in the regions of sunreturn
jonas reinhardt - eos, the dawn - music for the tactile dome
throbbing gristle - weeping - d.o.a. the third and final report of
batz without flesh - the notion - no memory
front 242 - the untold - tyranny for you
the sisters of mercy - phantom - alice 12"
balaclavas - wrong side of the bars - snake people
genders - slip into the nightcrawlers club - there's something in the treats
cabaret voltaire - premonition - the voice of america
ceramic hello - footsteps in the fog - the absence of a canary
solid space - contemplation - space museum
oppenheimer analysis - modern wonder - new mexico
stereolab - the groop play chord x - the groop played "space age batchelor pad music"
conrad schnitzler - ballet statique - ballet statique
the field - it's up there - looping state of mind
innergaze - no shame - we are strange loops
d.a. - the hatchling - odeon
Sunday, November 6, 2011
11/6/11
throbbing gristle - zyclon b zombie - the second annual report
david lynch - mansion theme - inland empire ost
made in mexico - a cannibal tale - zodiac zoo
iron maiden - number of the beast - number of the beast
budy-maglione - cannibal ferox - cannibal ferox ost
batz without flesh - equinox - no memory
tim krog, jan bartlett, ed christiano - the boogeyman strikes - the boogeyman ost
swans - her mouth is filled with honey - soundtracks for the blind
les baxter - sensual hallucinations - the dunwich horror ost
michael rubini & denny jaeger - beach house - the hunger ost
christopher komeda - dream - rosemary's baby ost
fantomas - henry: portrait of a serial killer - the final cut
necronomitron - blood clot guts - s/t
fabio frizzi - main title - zombie ost
siouxsie & the banshees - premature burial - join hands
jay chattaway - maniac's theme (main titles) - maniac ost
grouper - second skin/zombie wind - s/t
sword heaven - skinned and glued - entrance
goblin - profondo rosso (album version) - profondo rosso ost
alice cooper (feat. vincent price) - the black widow - welcome to my nightmare
angelo badalamenti - the pink room - twin peaks: fire walk with me
subtonix - black nails in my coffin - tarantism
the vanishing - terror, i've been dying to meet you - songs for psychotic children
riz ortolani - massacre of the troupe - cannibal holocaust ost
orion rigel dommisse - a faceless death - "what i want from you is sweet"
neon - informations of death - a tribute to flexi pop vol. 09
martial canterel - drilling backwards - refuge underneath
john carpenter & alan howarth - goodbye ellie - halloween III ost
david lynch - mansion theme - inland empire ost
made in mexico - a cannibal tale - zodiac zoo
iron maiden - number of the beast - number of the beast
budy-maglione - cannibal ferox - cannibal ferox ost
batz without flesh - equinox - no memory
tim krog, jan bartlett, ed christiano - the boogeyman strikes - the boogeyman ost
swans - her mouth is filled with honey - soundtracks for the blind
les baxter - sensual hallucinations - the dunwich horror ost
michael rubini & denny jaeger - beach house - the hunger ost
christopher komeda - dream - rosemary's baby ost
fantomas - henry: portrait of a serial killer - the final cut
necronomitron - blood clot guts - s/t
fabio frizzi - main title - zombie ost
siouxsie & the banshees - premature burial - join hands
jay chattaway - maniac's theme (main titles) - maniac ost
grouper - second skin/zombie wind - s/t
sword heaven - skinned and glued - entrance
goblin - profondo rosso (album version) - profondo rosso ost
alice cooper (feat. vincent price) - the black widow - welcome to my nightmare
angelo badalamenti - the pink room - twin peaks: fire walk with me
subtonix - black nails in my coffin - tarantism
the vanishing - terror, i've been dying to meet you - songs for psychotic children
riz ortolani - massacre of the troupe - cannibal holocaust ost
orion rigel dommisse - a faceless death - "what i want from you is sweet"
neon - informations of death - a tribute to flexi pop vol. 09
martial canterel - drilling backwards - refuge underneath
john carpenter & alan howarth - goodbye ellie - halloween III ost
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