Wednesday 2 January 2013

Some records I enjoyed in 2012

My spare time is becoming increasingly rare. My record playing time is getting eaten up by work, education and gigs. I haven't even had time to post a single entry on this blog. As such, my list for this year is somewhat unfair - some of these albums have been played more than others and had more chance to make an impact. Often then have kept me sane while I work, others have only had a few spins on the turntable. Live performances have also changed a few judgements. Some albums I bought this year are still sealed in cellophane. Then there's all the ones I never got round to buying! If I had the time to listen to each record released during the year for the same length of time, my judgement would be a lot less skewed, I'm sure. However I would probably have died of malnutrition. Anyway, here's my rough end of year list for 2012.

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Memory Drawings - Music For Another Loss
3. Clark - Iradelphic
4. JK Flesh - Posthuman
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Don't Bend Ascend
6. A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
7. Necro Deathmort - The Colonial Script
8. Conan - Monnos
9. Wodensthrone - Curse
10. Fieldhead - A Correction

11. Unsane - Wreck
12. A-Sun Amissa - Desperate In Her Heavy Sleep
13. Razmataz Lorry Excitement - If It Takes Me All Night Long
14. Hesper Payne / Sabazius - Under The Alum Shale
15. White Hills - Frying On This Rock
16. Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of the Knight - Going Home
17. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
18. Ghosting Season - The Very Last of The Saints
19. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
20. Stinking Lizaveta - 7th Direction

21. Nope - Revision
22. Mugstar - Axis
23. Latitudes - Individuation
24. Northerner - I Am On Your Side
25. Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games
26. The Cosmic Dead - The Cosmic Dead
27. Glissando - The World Without Us
28. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
29. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
30. Tree of Sores - A Cry of Despair