Honorable Mentions
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee: Into the Wind (Ubiquity, 1/26/10)
Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2/23/10)
Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma (Warp, 5/4/10)
Tim Fite: Under the Table Tennis (5/18/10)
The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1 , 9/14/10)
Wires Under Tension: Light Science (Western Vinyl, 2/8/11)
Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (Tzadik, 2/22/11)
Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation, 2/22/11)
DeVotchKa: 100 Lovers (Anti-, 3/1/11)
Stateless: Matilda (Ninja Tune, 3/1/11)
Sole & The Skyrider Band: Hello, Cruel World (Fake Four, 7/19/11)
Mister Heavenly: Out of Love (Sub Pop, 8/16/11)
Flash Bang Grenada: 10 Haters (Hellfyre Club / Alpha Pup, 8/23/11)
Boom Bip: Zig Zaj (Lex, 9/27/11)
DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, the Better (Verve /Universal, 10/4/11)
Tom Waits: Bad as Me (Anti-, 10/18/11)
Dirty Ghosts: Metal Moon (Last Gang, 2/21/12)
Sigh: In Somniphobia (Candlelight, 3/13/12)
Jherek Bischoff: Composed (Brassland, 6/5/12)
The Hives: Lex Hives (Disques Hives, 6/5/12)
Old Man Gloom: NO (Hydra Head, 6/26/12)
Anywhere: s/t (ATP Recordings, 7/24/12)
Ty Segall: Twins (Drag City, 10/9/12)
Why?: Mumps, Etc. (Anticon, 10/9/12)
Between the Buried and Me: The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade, 10/9/12)
Brokeback: Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey, 1/22/13)
The Bronx: (IV) (White Drugs / ATO, 2/5/13)
Helen Money: Arriving Angels (Profound Lore, 2/5/13)
Shai Hulud: Reach Beyond the Sun (Metal Blade, 2/19/13)
Dan Friel: Total Folklore (Thrill Jockey, 2/19/13)
Rotting Christ: Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Season of Mist, 3/5/13)
How to Destroy Angels: Welcome Oblivion (Columbia, 3/5/13)
And So I Watch You from Afar: All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House, 3/19/13)
Kvelertak: Meir (Roadrunner, 3/26/13)
Finntroll: Blodsvept (Century Media, 4/2/13)
so over Mike Patton and his garbling..with that said, True Widow is great, but have to give the nod to Implodes for the genre..no Disappears? Pinkish Black? Chelsea Wolfe? Dimmu Boogr over Krypts?
some fantastic stuff here I’ve never even come close to discovering, thanks guys, this list has been well and truly bookmarked.
I have a feeling that you’ll see Chelsea on our year-end list…
Glad you’re enjoying!
Bardo Pond’s self titled album needs to be on here.
Wow! I saw Tobin’s ISAM, DEP’s Option Paralysis, and AAL’s Weightless all on the same list and had to investigate. I’ve been sitting here for hours. As another poster said, this page has been bookmarked.
great list… personally I would have thrown In And Out Of Youth ANd Lighness from Young Widows and Go Tell Fire To The Mountain from wu lyf on there, but I can def get behind selections like helms alee, cave in, Trentemoller and Intronaut.
on and blackest curse from Integrity was a nice touch as well. Something tells me the new deafheaven could have made this list if it came out and the end of the year
Great diverse list. It does help that the selected sampels are mostly of astounding quality, sonically and musically both.
In and out of youth is so so great
That Cave In record is a sleeper classic
It sounds like you have impeccable taste, Mr. Hill.
Thanks, Rob! Indeed…we almost put the new Deafheaven on here anyway. Maybe it will be a retroactive inclusion. That Young Widows album is great too.
very good list! Thx
Clicking next a loading a new page each time sure isn’t tedious
BTBAM only an honorable mention? Are you fucked?