BEST OF 2012


Chris

New Music

  • » Goat - "World Music" (Rocket Recordings CD/LP)
  • » Carter Tutti Void - "Transverse" (Mute CD/LP+CD)
  • » Chui Wan - "White Night" (Maybe Mars CD)
  • » various artists - "Music From Saharan Cellphones" (Sahel Sounds LP)
  • » Duane Pitre - "Feel Free" (Important CD/LP)
  • » Moon Duo - "Circles" (Sacred Bones CD/LP)
  • » Turn To Crime - "Turn To Crime" (Self-released LP)
  • » Indian Jewelry - "Peel It" (Reverberation Appreciation Society LP)
  • » Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos - "Icon Give Thank" (RVNG Intl. CD/LP+DVD)
  • » Prince Rupert's Drops - "Run Slow" (Beyond Beyond is Beyond LP)

    • Reissues

  • » Cleaners From Venus - "Cleaners From Venus Vol. 1" (Captured Tracks 3CD)
  • » F.J. McMahon - "Spirit of the Golden Juice" (Circadian Press LP)
  • » Witch - "We Intend to Cause Havoc" (Now-Again 4CD/6LP)
  • » Roberto Cacciapaglia - "The Ann Steel Album" (Half Machine LP)
  • » Gunter Schickert - "Uberfallig" (Bureau B LP)
  • » Brain Police - "Brain Police" (Guerssen LP)
  • » Annette Peacock - "I'm the One" (Future Days CD/LP)
  • » Brenda Ray - "D'ya Hear Me!: Naffi Years 1979-1983" (Em CD/LP)
  • » Sensation's Fix - "Music is Painting in the Air" (RVNG Intl. 2CD/2LP)
  • » Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns - "Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns" (Lion Productions CD/LP)

    • Brian

    New Music

  • » Angel Olsen - "Half Way Home"
  • » Grass Widow - "Internal Logic"
  • » Guided By Voices - "Class Clown Spots A UFO"
  • » Guided By Voices - "Bears For Lunch"
  • » Julia Holter - "Exstasis"
  • » Neil Young - "Psychedelic Pill"
  • » Prince Rupert's Drops - "Run Slow"
  • » Spiritualized - "Sweet Heart Sweet Light"
  • » Swans - "Seer"
  • » Tame Impala - "Lonerism"

    • Reissues

  • » Andrzej Korzynski - "Third Part of the Night" O.S.T.
  • » Andrzej Korzynski - "Possession" O.S.T.
  • » Bruce Langhorne - "Hired Hand" O.S.T.
  • » D'Angelo - "Voodoo"
  • » Ghetto Brothers - "Power Fuerza"
  • » John Carpenter & Alan Howard - "Halloween 2" O.S.T.
  • » Kenneth Higney - "Attic Demonstrations"
  • » Philippe D'Aram - "Fascination" O.S.T.
  • » Sleep - "Dopesmoker"

    • Bruno

    Music

  • » various artists - "Personal Space" (Chocolate Industries CD/2LP)
  • » Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Unknown Mortal Orchestra" (Fat Possum CD/LP)
  • » various artists - "Listen to The Music: Caltone's Jamaican 45s" (Pressure Sounds CD/2LP)
  • » Scientist - "In the Kingdom of Dub" (Important LP)
  • » Call Of The Wild - "Leave Your Leather On" (Kemado CD/LP)
  • » Yabby You - "Deeper Roots: Dub Plates & Rarities 1976-1978" (Pressure Sounds CD/LP)
  • » Al Campbell - "Jah Love 12" Ft. General Lee & Trinity / Roots Radics, Scientist" (High Power 12")
  • » Earl Sixteen- "Reggae Sound" (Dread at the Controls LP)
  • » various artists - "Music From Saharan Cellphones" (Sahel Sounds LP)

    • Dom

    New Music

  • 10. Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos - "Icon Give Thank" (RVNG Intl. CD/LP+DVD)
  • 09. Tame Impala - "Lonerism" (Modular CD/2LP)
  • 08. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Psychedelic Pill" (Reprise 2CD/3LP)
  • 07. Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes" (Warp CD/2LP)
  • 06. Magic Trick - "Ruler of the Night" (Hardly Art CD/LP)
  • 05. Melody's Echo Chamber - "Melody's Echo Chamber" (Fat Possum CD/LP)
  • 04. White Fence - "Family Purfume Vol. 1 & 2" (Woodsist CD/2LP)
  • 03. The Walkmen - "Heaven" (Fat Possum CD/LP)
  • 02. Ty Segall & White Fence - "Hair" (Drag City CD/LP)
  • 01. Apache Dropout - "Bubblegum Graveyard" (Trouble in Mind CD/LP)

    • Reissues

  • 10. Gunter Schickert - "Uberfallig" (Bureau B LP)
  • 09. Terry Riley/John Cale - "Church of Anthrax" (Columbia LP)
  • 08. Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family - "My Ancestors" (Shadoks LP)
  • 07. Sensation's Fix - "Music is Painting in the Air" (RVNG Intl. 2CD/2LP)
  • 06. Public Nuisance - "Gotta Survive" (Third Man LP)
  • 05. Lee Perry - "Blackboard Jungle Dub" (Get on Down 10" Box Set)
  • 04. Tony Allen - "Black Voices Revisited" (Comet CD)
  • 03. The Bats - "Daddy's Highway" (Flying Nun LP)
  • 02. various artists - "Personal Space" (Chocolate Industries CD/2LP)
  • 01. Brenda Ray - "Walatta" (Em CD)

    • John

    New Music

  • » Scott Walker - "Bish Bosch" (4AD CD/2LP)
  • » Chelsea Wolfe - "Unknown Rooms" (Sargent House CD/LP)
  • » Aaron Dilloway / Jason Lescall - "Grapes & Snakes" (Pan LP)
  • » Andy Stott - "Luxury Problems" (Modern Love CD/2LP)
  • » Rosenkopf - "Rosenkopf" (Weird CD/LP)
  • » Melvins - "Freak Puke" (Ipecac CD)
  • » Woods - "Bend Beyond" (Woodsist CD/LP)
  • » Swans - "Seer" (2CD/3LP)
  • » High on Fire - "De Vermis Mysteriis" (eOne CD/2LP)
  • » Merchandise - "Children of Desire" (Katorga Works CD/LP)

    • Mary-Katherine

    New Music

  • 01. Daniel Bachman - "Seven Pines" (Tompkins Square LP)
  • 02. Seabat - "Crescent Parc" (Constellation Tatsu LP)
  • 03. Hex Breaker - "Riders" (NNA Tapes Cassette)
  • 04. Outer Space - "II" (Blast First Petite LP)
  • 05. Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford - "Wreckage" (Prisma LP)
  • 06. Bee Mask - "Vaporware/Scanops" (Room40 LP)
  • 07. Prince Rupert's Drops - "Run Slow" (Beyond Beyond is Beyond LP)
  • 08. Ian Drennan - "The Wonderful World" (Underwater Peoples LP)
  • 09. King Cyst - "Real Pussy" (Underwater Peoples LP)
  • 10. various artists - "Laila Je T'aime: Guitar Music From Western Sahel" (Mississippi LP)

    • Reissues

  • 01. John Fahey - "The Voice of the Turtle" (4 Men with Beards LP)
  • 02. The Clean - "Oddities" (Five-Four O LP)
  • 03. F.J. McMahon - "Spirit of the Golden Juice" (Circadian Press LP)
  • 04. George Grudjieff - "Improvisations" (Mississippi LP)
  • 05. Terry Riley/John Cale - "Church of Anthrax" (Columbia LP)
  • 06. Roberto Cacciapaglia - "The Ann Steel Album" (Half Machine LP)
  • 07. Brenda Ray - "D'ya Hear Me!: Naffi Years 1979-1983" (Em CD/LP)
  • 08. Suzanne Ciani - "Lixiviation" (B-Music CD/LP)
  • 09. Nurse with Wound - "Sucked Orange/Scrag" (Dirter Promotions 2CD)
  • 10. Henning Chrisiansen - "Kreumusik Fluxid Behandlung OP 189" (Kye LP)

    • Nathan

    New Music

  • 01. Alice Cohen - "Pink Keys" (Olde English Spelling Bee LP)
  • 02. Outer Space - "Akashic Record (Events: 1986-1990)" (Spectrum Spools LP)
  • 03. Julia Holter - "Ekstasis" (RVNG Intl. CD/2LP)
  • 04. Prince Rupert's Drops - "Run Slow" (Beyond Beyond is Beyond LP)
  • 05. The Clean - "Oddities" (Five-Four O LP)
  • 06. Laurel Halo - "Quarantine" (HyperDub CD/LP)
  • 07. Suzanne Ciani - "Lixiviation" (B-Music CD/LP)
  • 08. Emeralds - "Just to Feel Anything" (EditionsMego CD/LP)
  • 09. Seabat - "Crescent Parc" (Constellation Tatsu LP)
  • 10. Forma - "Off/On" (Spectrum Spools LP)

    • Greg

    New Music

  • 01. K-Holes - "Dismania"
  • 02. Call of the Wild - "Leave Your Leather On"
  • 03. Timmy's Organism - "Raw Sewage Roq"
  • 04. Jack White - "Blunderbuss"
  • 05. Two Gallants - "The Bloom and the Bright"
  • 06. Fiona Apple - "The Idler Wheel..."
  • 07. Lee Fields & the Expressions - "Faithful Man"
  • 08. Beach House - "Bloom"
  • 09. The Men - "Open Your Heart"
  • 10. Metz - "Metz"

    • Sarah

    New Music

  • 01. Spiritualized - "Sweet Heart, Sweet Light" (Fat Possum CD/LP)
  • 02. Fucked Up - "David Comes to Life" (Matador CD/2LP)
  • 03. Tame Impala - "Lonerism" (Modular CD/2LP)
  • 04. Cleaners From Venus - "Cleaners From Venus Vol. 1" (Captured Tracks 3CD)
  • 05. Thee Oh Sees - "Putrifiers II" (In the Red CD/LP)
  • 06. The Clean - "Oddities" (Five-Four O LP)
  • 07. Fresh and Onlys - "Long Slow Dance" (Mexican Summer CD/LP)
  • 08. Sensation's Fix - "Music is Painting in the Air" (RVNG Intl. 2CD/2LP)
  • 09. Royal Headache - "Royal Headache" (What's Your Rupture CD/LP)
  • 10. Sharon Van Etten - "Tramp" (Jagjaguwar CD/LP)