Rolling "favorite music of 2012 so far" thread (albums and/or tracks edition)

You should have been a primary school teacher.

i only like kids if i can give them back to their parents when i get bored of them

Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
VCMG - SSSS
John Talabot - Fin
Blondes - Blondes
UFOmammut - ORO I
Session Victims - The Haunted House Of House
Killing Joke - MMXII
White Hills - Frying On This Rock
Alexander Tucker - Third Mouth
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Swans - We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head
Black Rain - Now I'm Just A Number (reissue)
John Foxx and the Maths - The Shape Of Things
SunnO))) - 00Void (reissue)
Burial - Kindred (EP)

Nice choices tpp, but I don't think that Rack City and Who Are You are 2012 releases...

John Foxx and the Maths - The Shape Of Things
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse

what are these like? i am def intrigued

Foxxy is a lot more bleak and grimy sounding than last year's album but it's got plenty of good songs on it and it's always a pleasure to hear Ben Edwards playing synthesizer.

Transverse is the real revelation though. There's a stream of it on our site if you want to listen to it. Although it might be in other places by now. The album is the straight recording of their forty minute, four song set at Mute's Short Circuit festival in London about a year ago. It's just an absolute pleasure from start to finish. It sounds like a really good TG live album, mixed with some great industrial techno and duelling guitars. Nik Void sounding like Daniel Ash/Paul Leary with a hangover and Cosey, well, like Cosey. Really puts a thunder in your chest.

Although I'm a total TG/FF/C&C Music Factory partisan.

Streamed Transverse on a whim late last night... er, WOW. Instant love for this!

Yeah this stuff sounds amazing.

1st quarter wrapup.. no one cares because i listen to too much rock but yeah... I think these are all 2012 anyway
01 Big Freedia "Booty-Whop"
02 Cloud Nothings "Cut You"
03 Mr Dream "Believing and Shitting"
04 Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
05 Grass is Green "Somebody's Something"
06 French Montana "Shot Caller"
07 A Place To Bury Strangers "So Far Away"
08 Japandroids "The House That Heaven Built" (as of yesterday)
09 Ceremony "World Blue"
10 Speedy Ortiz "Taylor Swift"

"Shot Caller" is probably 2011.. I dont remember.

Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
some of this is on spotify. sounds fuckin great so far

just heard the end of one song and there is applause suggesting this is a live album which is kinda blowin my mind just a bit

"Shot Caller" is probably 2011.. I dont remember.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:13 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it is

Nice choices tpp, but I don't think that Rack City [is a] 2012 release...

― MikoMcha, Friday, March 23, 2012 4:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chart peak was in 2012

There's a new Big Freedia track out and I haven't heard it?!

My own, pathetic first quarter round up would go a little something like this:

ALBUMS
John K. Samson, Provincial
The Wedding Present, Valentina
The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Scrappy Happiness

(yeah, not a great year for me and albums so far)

TRACKS (not including songs from any of the aforementioned albums for the time being)
Cassie - "King of Hearts"
Charli XCX – “Valentine”
Leonard Cohen – “Show Me The Place”
Heartless Bastards - "Marathon"
Ladyhawke – “Black, White & Blue”
Nicki Minaj – “Stupid Hoe”
Miryo – “Dirty”
Plan B - "Ill Manors"
Saint Etienne – “Tonight”
Timbaland ft. Dev - "Break Ya Back"
Bobby Womack - "Please Forgive My Heart"

guess no one else likes the new Cardinal lp, Hymns...

Here's my rolling Spotify "new albums I have enjoyed in 2012" playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/0YUc5Yfd5pdxMPqQ4Fqqu4

xp I think I'm really enjoying Charli XCX.. Replace "Shot Caller" with one of her songs.

No idea there was a new Plaskett - must investigate.
Cardinal Hymns is kinda meh - hate to say it but I tried and tried.

mike, that world routes album is sick. thanks for the playlist!

call to hearts (intro)
black lipstick
bombs
automatic
change
heaven
faith
scripture
smfu (remix)
the battle (outro)

whats the name of the album?

rusty otm

weird album name

it's ok jvc; someone answered my question in the Dawn Richard thread

ie Dawn Richard - Armor On

albums & tracks so far http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/20411776428/q1-2012-report

youtube playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F21306AE3F94E0B

ALBUMS:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Blondes - s/t
Todd Terje - It's the Arps
Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme
Chairlift - Something

I'll second the Escort mention as well.

― skip, Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:46 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll add Django Django, Tennis, the Men, Talabot, and Hospitality to this list.

yay lex, u don't like grimes

lex, is Voices from the Deep meant to be Voices from the Lake or is it something different?

they could have had it all if only they rolled

google also suggests lex may have been digging some whale sounds

hahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4fxOuQMMY

liars - "no. 1 against the rush"

dang, i meant not to embed that

srys

xpost. I do like about 2/3 of the Cardinal album a lot, and I think it's throwing some reviewers for a loop because it's closer to Moles with some horns pasted on. But, the latter half kind of drags up until Radio Birdman.

Also very fond of:

White Rabbits - Milk Famous (basically Spoon)
Now, Now - Thread (basically Tegan & Sara meet Swirlies)
Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks (basically David Bowie)
Hospitality - Hospitality

I seem to be all indie rock this year.

Now, Now - Thread (basically Tegan & Sara meet Swirlies)

really enjoying this record

lex, is Voices from the Deep meant to be Voices from the Lake or is it something different?

yes :( i have corrected it.

Orbital in there next to Field Music straight from the off.

Yuna - live your life

Track produced by pharrell williams and it might just be one of my favorite of his in years. Everything rolls so smoothly, wishing it becomes a hit but its probably too subtle to get noticed in the charts, still its one of those songs that you know youre going to like since the first time you hear them.

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
Gareth Dickson
Mikhail
Teho Teardo
Pupkulies & Rebecca

(all album-mum-mum-mums)

Been a bit out the loop lately with things, but I quite enjoyed a mini-album by Phantogram called "Nightlife" the other night which was pretty good if you like the Chairlift record.

Latest additions:

ALBUM(S)
Big Freedia - God Save The Queen Diva

TRACKS
Miguel - "Arch 'n' Point"
Tomboyfriend - "Alexander McQueen"

Yuna - live your life

Track produced by pharrell williams and it might just be one of my favorite of his in years. Everything rolls so smoothly, wishing it becomes a hit but its probably too subtle to get noticed in the charts, still its one of those songs that you know youre going to like since the first time you hear them.

whoa, i'm into this. so bleary.

I made a http://reverenddollars.tumblr.com/post/20556599643/q1-jamz

Kinda did an odd arrangement of a dozen groupings of three at least semi-related songs I like.

Well did a top 10 for January so might as well do one for each passing month:

February 2012

Bondax - All Inside
Danny Brown - Grown Up
Lapalux - Moments
Kidnap Kid - Vehl
Notorious B.I.G. - Going to Cali (Viceroy 'Jet Life' remix)
NZCA/LINES - Okinawa Channels
Santigold - Disparate Youth
Tennis - Petition
Usher - Climax
Yuna - Live Your Life

March 2012

Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart
Chromatics - Back from the Grave
Gacha - Remember
Liars - No.1 Against the Rush
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
Miguel - Adorn
Mister Lies - Cleam
Nina Kraviz - Ghetto Kraviz
Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Shigeto remix)
TV Girl - I Wonder Who She's Kissing Now

Rizzla - DICK
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Since discovering Moondog, all I can listen to is Moondog.

some stuff i've really dug since i last posted an update:

V/A (but esp Neko Case) - Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond
Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang - An Letah
Lyriel - Leverage
Colleen Green - Milo Goes To Compton
Mirel Wagner - Self-Titled
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Now, Now - Threads
Bola - Volume 7

I forgot last time I posted to mention:

Hatcham Social - About Girls

Which seems very likely to be a top-10 album for the year. Never would have heard of them if not for ilm.