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2012 albums that have been kicking my ass lately:

Mgla - With Hearts Toward None

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Pharaoh - Bury the Light

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Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

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Jamming some black metal today - "Be'Lakor" - song is "From Scythe to Sceptre"

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Tech n9ne callabos still playing strong and I finally tried out yellawolf.. Badass!

I've been buying a bunch of splits and EP's lately. This has been a favorite full length of mine this year.

Six Brew Bantha.

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Listening to the new Killer Mike album, "R.A.P. Music."

Produced by El-P, which should be reason enough to give this a listen.

It's definitely going to be moving up toward my top of the year in rap.

Probably one of the albums I was most excited to hear this year. I've listened to it a couple of times now, but there's just SO much shit out there... I'll get back to the Beach House on my late summer nights kick I imagine.

Opening Track:

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loved it. thanks for posting this. hoping this album is on spotify.

It is. Title is "Bloom."

If you've never listened to their album, "Teen Dream," I can't recommend it highly enough. Was my late night soundtrack for about 6 months.

Thanks man. Added them both. I'm a big time shoegazer and this is right up my alley.

Deltron 3030 - Mastermind

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Glad you liked it. As Reaper said, their last album was freaking amazing. I suggest you check it out, too.

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Me, not Reaper. He probably hates Beach House.

****. My bad...

I've been singing his praises for a while, but if you like shoegaze, you should check out Youth Lagoon. Parts of it really remind me of Galaxie 500. Really slow building stuff that moves from sparse, folky lofi to sweeping, lush shoegaze.

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Quality! Definitely a young Surfer Blood in there.

Beach House is only good for giving Block Beattaz samples to make rap songs out of.

Well, while we're on the subject of shoegaze and 90's sounding music...

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I'll add one. Remastered version of "sometimes" by My Bloody Valentine

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Every time I listen to Cloud Nothings it gives me hope that I, the man with the terrible voice, can be the singer of a successful buzzband.

MOAR DEATH GRIPS

No, seriously. It's ****ing good.

Fantastic. My favorite MBV song.

lol ouch

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I'm really digging the most recent Volbeat album. I think it was released in 2010, but I just got into it, so it's 2012 for me.

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As an aside, Reaper, how did Hot Sauce Committee not make your list for 2011?

I just never wanted to return to it. I never found myself wanting to listen to it. It's very solid; the the best Beastie Boys album since Hello Nasty.

But in a year that was FULL of forward-thinking hip-hop, That BB album felt like a relic of the past. I always wanted to instead listen to innovative, fresh albums by G-Side, Danny Brown, Doomtree, Sims, Cities Aviv, Mr. Mother****ing eXquire, ASAP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, The Roots, Big KRIT, Cunninglynguists, & Das Racist.

This was pretty much my take as well. The Beastie Boys sounded as good as ever, but the album felt dated and not particularly exciting. That's not really a critique on the album itself, it's just that my musical listening style right now is to get caught up in the current milieu and the direction where things are heading, not to relive the past. I guess I'm saying I'm a trendy bastard.

And by the way: have you listened to the Killer Mike album yet?

Just purchased this ....suspect it will be the last album...GO GET IT

Willie and Merle "on a horse called music."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoXEaBW_-yU

Brooklyn crust

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On my third listen of this album. It lives up to the hype. Damn.

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That's probably my favorite track on the album. The whole thing bumps, though.

I just texted a fellow rap fan friend about this. He's pretty turned off by misogynism and shit, so I was worried he wouldn't make it through the first track to listen to the whole thing. The production on this album is sick (El-P) and right up my alley with its sometime weirdness. The real thing I like, though, is that almost every song has a sort of "shift" in it where it goes to the next level both with the vocals and the production.

"Untitled" at about 3:31 is a great example of this:
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And an extended Lord of the Flies allusion in "Willie Burke Sherwood" elevates the shit out of this album.

I'm actually getting around to listening to the new Beach House album now. I wish there weren't any vocals. Instrumentals are nice, though.

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This song just pop in my head & I couldn't resist.

Pennywise with their new singer:

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The old singer (Jim Lindberg) with his new band (The Black Pacific):

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I like Jim Lindberg with his new band better than Pennywise with their new singer. Both seem to have Green Day sound check or influence.

Been listening to the new "mewithoutyou" album a good bit.. it's prettaahhhh good
Also Emily Wells "Mama" -- very, very good.

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These sound like tunes you'd find in a Tarantino flick. Good stuff.

El-P's new album, Cancer for Cure, is pretty nice. Check out this track, featuring Mr. Mother****ing eXquire and Danny Brown.

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This shit is ****ing dope

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Forgot just how good this entire album is. It probably took me 10 or 12 listens to enjoy it in it's entirety; but I love it.

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2012 powerviolence resurgence.

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Giving the album a second listen right now. I like it and respect it. I don't know that I'll be reaching for it repeatedly for enjoyment, but I think it's interesting. Quite a bit of music I listen to these days falls into that category, though. Not a knock on those albums, more on the mood I'm in at any given time.

J. Tilliman, former drummer for the Fleet Foxes, has a new project called Father John Misty. While this performance is kitsch as hell, the album is really solid for those who like songwriting filled with weird cultural allusions and surprising turns of phrase.
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Never heard this one before. Wow.

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I got to see Otep on their House of Secrets tour in Memphis, TN back in 05 -- it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. They ****ing brought it that night. Craziest pit I've ever seen. I haven't listened to most of their recent stuff but I did pick up her poetry books a few years back -- some demented stuff.
****ing weird ass lady too, that Otep Shamaya.. We had backstage passes and went to visit with them after the show and she just locked herself in the bathroom screaming and crying the whole time.. I forget the bass players name "Evil something" - but he apologized for her behavior and said that the tour was tearing her apart.. We got his autograph and took a photo and that was that.

Yeah, I cruised youtube for a bit watching those guys. After seeing a couple of docs, she certainly plays the "tortured artist" role up. Maybe for her it's not a role anymore. Eh, whatever. Love her voice and a bunch of their songs.

holy shit, awesome...

holy mother...my idol ric flair with his best line ever: "I have more cars than most of you have friends..."

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Classic Nas.


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Reaper, why haven't you told us about this band yet?

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And holy geezzus the first single from Panopticon's Kentucky is out... black metal, whistles, banjoes... metal is pretttttahhh exciting right now.. Check this shit out

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featu...cons-kentucky/

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Last post for today -- New Be'lakor single is up (album is out June 1st) -- if you don't know this band and you like metal.. shoot yourself.

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Anyone else listening to volbeat? I'm not sure why it took me so long to find this band.

Yup. Big fan of them.

Madder Mortem - Faceless
Just stumbled across this band -- sorta toolish with a female vocalist.

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This album is blowing my ****ing mind. It's what Radiohead's King of Limbs should have been.

Full stream: http://pitchfork.com/news/46666-list...wixiw-in-full/

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Freaking Black Hippy/TDE collective is just full of win these days. Ab-Soul's album kicks ass, just like Schoolboy Q's did.

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I cannot get enough of this album. It is absolute perfection - best album of the year - nothing will touch this. The music, clean vocals, harsh vocals are simply perfect. Opeth who?

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Picked up:

ACxDC - The Second Coming & He Had It Coming EPs. Super limited press 7".
P.L.F - Pulverizing Lethal Force. Re-issue CD.
Fastcore Photos Issue #1

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Bump. Because the old thread got bumped because someone wasn't paying attention.

I saw a bluegrass(?) band called The Devil Makes Three last Friday night at a Flogging Molly concert in St. Louis and they were really impressive (Flogging Molly was fantastic too, as expected). This is a video from the next afternoon at Bonnaroo.

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I know that there are a few metalcore fans here (don't judge me) -- the new Memphis May Fire album is available for stream. It's pretty good if you dig their previous work (though there really isn't much southern style anymore).

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Picked up a couple more splits.

Hummingbird of Death/Titanarum split 12" - I was in it for the 2 songs from HoD but the beauty of a split is you get to experience the other band.

Backslider/Chainsaw To The Face spilt 7" - In it for the Backslider tracks, textbook Powerviolence.

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After that kind of build up I had to listen to this.
Uh, how do I put this? There must be different categories of best album of the year that nothing can touch with perfect vocals.

I suppose I should say progressive metal album of the year. I honestly meant to catch a few other posters with this band but if you can dig the music, that's great -- if not, sorry for misleading.

Finally going to give this a legit listen today while getting some work done.

Awesome. Be sure and listen to original track I posted -- probably my favorite song on the album. The violinist is also the singer (clean vocals).

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New Agalloch track bitches:


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Just in case the embed isn't working (I can't tell if it is or not), here is the link to the bandcamp:

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