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John Talabot
Schoolboy Q
Christian Löffler
Forward Strategy Group
Grimes
Jessie Ware
Ukkonen
Joey Bada$$

Kendrick mentioned bitches way too much for my liking.
Can't seem to 'get' the fuss about th' Frank Ocean album either (not that I've listened to much rnb and hip hop since being obsessed with The Roots, Dead Prez, Jurassic5, Common, etc when I was 16-18)

not meaning to be pedantic, but Grimes has two previous albums

its awesome

also diiv.

brambles
black elk
orcas
michael price

and a lot of Knifesque stuff

Trust
Me and My Drummer
Purity Ring
Polica
Iamamiwhoami

and also

black twig
indian wells
cello + laptop

Blondes S/T
Death Grips-the money store

Alt-J
Polica
Purity Ring

Purity Ring - Shrines
Poliça - Give You the Ghost
Toy - Toy
2:54 - 2:54
Gary Beck - Bring a Friend
Trust - Trst
John Talabot - fIN
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Barker and Baumecker - Transsektoral

album/mixtape pedantry argument ahoy

oh yeah

Also Alt-J

Stealing Sheep also.

The Blood Choir - No Windows To The Old World
Guile - Alone On The West
Dark Horses - Black Music

that album is excellent. also, Purity Ring, Billy Woods, Steve Smyth and Joey Bada$$

is pretty awesome. as well as many already mentioned.

Ukkonen
Silent Servant
Rene Audiard

unless you count The Money Store

forever

of the year? Last year he asked everyone for their top 5 and then did a top 50. That was excellent work.

Let's wait till December though eh

Diiv
Melody's Echo Chamber
Terry Malts
Dog Is Dead

Toy
2:54
Polica
Foe

LHF – Keepers of the Light [Keysound]
Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse – MM/KM [The Trilogy Tapes]
Vessel – Order of Noise [Tri Angle]
100s – Ice Cold Perm [Self Released]
Jahilyya Fields – Unicursal Hexagram [L.I.E.S.]
Dariius – Dariius [Self Released]
Ukkonen – The Isolated Rhythms Of... [Uncharted Audio]
Yöt – Bitch Bender [Raha & Tunteet]
Cooly G – Playing Me [Hyperdub]
DVA – Pretty Ugly [Hyperdub]
Laurel Halo – Quarantine [Hyperdub]
Ghosting Season – The Very Last Of The Saints [Last Night on Earth]

forever ever

Metz
Lana Del Rey (if BtD counts)
Divine Fits (if that counts)

it is.

It's amazing.

My Beatific Vision is (7 tracks 35 mins is too long for an EP I reckon).

It's definitely one om my albums of the year tho'.

Thanks again for putting the gig on at The Chameleon on Saturday. It was an absolute blinder. Eventually got away about 2.45am after loading up all the gear.

also whirr

ahoy

but if Ex-Military is counted as the debut then Money Store isn't a debut THIS year is it?

I think is the only 2012 debut I've liked enough to listen to more than once, so far. I don't know what's happened to me. I need to listen to some of the ones from this thread then I guess.

:)

the worst album cover design in the history of the free world

damn he got bitches
damn he got bitches

Got no idea how they didn't do better this year!

iamamiwhoami - Kin
Black Moth - The Killing Jar
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Cold Specks - I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
John Talabot - ƒIN
Chad Valley - Young Hunger
DIIV - Oshin
Birds In Row - You, Me, & The Violence
Goat - World Music
Purity Ring - Shrines
2:54 - 2:54
Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS

Ukkonen
PAWS
Keaton Henson
Scott and Charlene's Wedding
and loads more. Good thread found some interesting stuff here

Think it came out right at the end of last year, but was definitely not available in the UK until 2012, so it gets in. (They had another one out this year, which absolutely rules as well).

Also really liked:

Laurel Halo - 'Quarantine' (if Hour Logic doesn't count)
Kendrick Lamar - 'Good Kid M.A.A.D City' (if Section 80 doesn't count)
Goat - 'World Music'
Holly Herndon - 'Movement'

Haven't heard the Melody's Echo Chamber LP yet, but reckon I'll be into that as well

as MBV is definitely regarded as an EP (even though I get what you're saying).

Thanks for everything Saturday. Everything worked out in the end and those last 2 sets from 93MMFTS & The Lost Rivers were nothing short of incredible!

Foreign Fields

Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake, Echo Lake :-)

Oh, and the FOE album is bloody great too. And whether or not we count it (see above) The Lost Rivers album is fantastic!

Certainly the most promising debut, can't wait to what she comes up with next

stonking album

Talabot & TOY - definitely one of those

I'm disappointed in myself that I like most of the Kindness record

it was his debut - very good album

Trust but you did it!

It was a great year musically - all these first albums are great quality. Bet a few of the bands mention on here will be a staple on the music scene for years.

My Beatific Vision was their first EP.

FACT!

Radar Men From The Moon - Echo Forever

I keep giving it another chance but it does nothing for me

frankie rose
weird dreams
blue balloon
metz
swearin'

all good.

Cymophane - S/T
Hectic Zeniths - S/T
Nothing But Noise - Not Bleeding Red
Futexture - The Science Of How Things Unfold
Selva Oscura - Refractides
Zander One - Echoate
iNTRiKeT - The Woods

by Cheek Mountain Thief. Not sure it fully qualifies as it's a Tunng spin-off, but 'tis a thing of considerable beauty.

the acclaim is over my head

Tigercats
Tigercats
Tigercats
Tigercats
Tigercats

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan! (Dubious release date, got deservedly bigger this year) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKmcIXE9vk

Sswampzz! (technically EP, what of it?) http://sswampzz.bandcamp.com/album/sleeper

Teen Suicide! http://teensuicide.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-be-my-own-hell-because-there-is-a-devil-inside-my-body

RYAT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A1uHy0otAA

METZ!

Honourable mentions to Islet, Race Horses, John Talabot

I thought it was last year. Top for me.

No one believes me ... booo wooo

I can't help but feel like they're being overlooked somewhat.

He released an EP in 2011 but this was his first full-length under that moniker, as far as I'm aware.

I enjoyed this release an awful lot though, can't wait for the LP!

I considered suggesting it for DiS’s Lost 12 of 2012 series, but am already down to write two. It’s a nice little secret to hold onto, regardless.

But was rereleased on Paper Bag Records shortly after Polaris. Not sure if they’re planning to visit the UK, but their live show is quite something.