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Music You Discovered via DiS in 2012

sean [Edit] [Delete] 55 replies 18:39 December 17th, 2012

Then annual thank you thread to give a shout out to the DiSsers and writers who turned you on to (or made you revisit) some tracks, acts or albums this year. Feel free to include links.

For starters, I'd like to thank Jordan Dowling for letting me know about Yppah.

There was also loads if stuff I got into from that ambientish thread http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4347711

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Yppah »[x]
Exitmusic »[x]
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Not Stealing Sheep

Seriously, not even an album review for one of 2012's best releases?

Sloame_Ocean | 17 Dec '12, 18:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I don't think we were sent it
  
  I didn't get any emails from PRs about them.
  But this thread isn't for bitching and moaning about that. You must have heard one thing because of this site?
  
  sean @Sloame_Ocean | 17 Dec '12, 19:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Ps our team reviewed over 700 albums this year
    
    sean @sean | 17 Dec '12, 19:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Sorry. (Stands in corner with forlorn expression...)
      
      I hate it when the first response to a thread is negative, but it's just doing my head in that virtually nobody is talking about this album, when it's clearly amazing. Hell, I'll send you a copy if that's all that's standing in the way of getting it reviewed... Would've made an excellent addition to your lost albums of 2012 feature...
      
      An album DiS turned me on to this year? Polica, maybe?
      
      Sloame_Ocean @sean | 17 Dec '12, 19:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Oh, and um, apparently you did review it...
        
        http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17214/reviews/4145428
        
        Might want to get that Search feature up there looked at. (Coughs and leaves room)
        
        PS. It's at least an 8/10.
        
        Sloame_Ocean @Sloame_Ocean | 17 Dec '12, 19:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I reviewed it here...
    
    http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17214/reviews/4145428
    
    domgourlay @sean | 18 Dec '12, 13:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Plvs Vltra

thanks for the Lillililioliloliolilolloololoaure or whatever and her magical forever updating 2012 playlist. One of the best art pop albums I've heard in some time

Yesiamaduck | 17 Dec '12, 19:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Yeah!
  
  Yesiamaduckieduckieduck, glad you like it.
  
  Lililololaure @Yesiamaduck | 29 Dec '12, 17:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
quite a lot from the rolling mongrel and show me the prog threads

xheathenx | 17 Dec '12, 19:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- durhhh
  
  RM1: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4317717
  RM2: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4416251
  jimitheexploder et al should take a bow for this, as it's immense and filled with wondrous beaty nonsense.
  
  The prog recommendations thread: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4202415 thanks to puds and louie for that one.
  
  There was another for heavy stuff that i can't find, wound up listening to a bunch of stuff from that (pop1280 and ting).
  
  xheathenx @xheathenx | 17 Dec '12, 19:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
Exitmusic

Thanks Sean!

jack_on_fire | 17 Dec '12, 20:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
Foreign Fields

<3
Thank you very, very much Teeej

pichaelmarker | 17 Dec '12, 20:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Pale-eyedBadger, petetheweed, and sizeofanocean this'd this
Yeah, I bought Eighty-One after seeing Jordan's thread.

Cracking album.

DanielKelly | 17 Dec '12, 20:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I did too
  
  brilliant. I forgave him all his Radiohead threads in one scoop after that.
  
  Lililololaure @DanielKelly | 29 Dec '12, 17:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
Loads, but specific

Shout out to Sean for When Saints Go Machine early on in the year

beautiful_balloon | 17 Dec '12, 20:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
I'd like to thank

Whoever wrote the Flying Lotus review and did that interview with him.
And Sean's repeated reminders of Foe.

rainmaker | 17 Dec '12, 20:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
all the rap I've been listening to is from the Rolling Hip-Hop Thread

and Shipment's Kanye threads, so props for those

JaguarPirate | 17 Dec '12, 21:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
John Talabot

Fin is an excellent album.

Also Blondes.

deep-blue | 17 Dec '12, 21:03 | X | ^ This | Reply

subjective this'd this
- both of those!
  
  i discovered both of those here, both so amazing. so glad i've got them in heavy rotation.
  
  subjective @deep-blue | 18 Dec '12, 18:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Me too. Love Fin
    
    Still a bit unconvinced by Blondes.
    
    bornin69 @subjective | 30 Dec '12, 16:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Zelienople

Jordan_229_2 | 17 Dec '12, 21:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hectic Zeniths, MSOTT, Chromatics

Hectic Zeniths was mentioned by driftingskeleton on http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4317919
Good instrumental hip hop with original piano pieces. Two great tracks in I Might Drown and Save Me.

Also heard about Motion Sickness Of Time Travel and Chromatics through DiS first.

friday55 | 17 Dec '12, 21:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- How rude of me
  
  Thanks driftingskeleton, thanks Sean, thanks DiS.
  
  friday55 @friday55 | 18 Dec '12, 09:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Stumbleine

NYFYO | 17 Dec '12, 23:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
BATS

Cloud Nothings and Keaton Henson. Mentioned by various people that I can't remember.

d-dontshoot | 18 Dec '12, 00:12 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this
Chromatics, Blondes, Van Etten & DIIV

all in my top records of the year

sunstroke_house | 18 Dec '12, 00:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Christ.

justanothersheeldz | 18 Dec '12, 00:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Blondes

Stumbleine
Vessels (made my top 5)
Laurel Halo (had her own thread at some point)
Young Smoke (one of jimi's threads I think)

wewerewerewolvesonce | 18 Dec '12, 00:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Well since DIS is my place to go for new music

the list would be huge but the significant ones would be:

Chromatics
Liars
Twin Shadow
Sharon Van Etten
The Irrepressibles

MarwoodW | 18 Dec '12, 10:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bill Callaghan

Which I'm very happy about. Cheers.

crosseyedsniper | 18 Dec '12, 11:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
METZ

Title Fight

shucks | 18 Dec '12, 12:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Good shout on Metz
  
  Lililololaure @shucks | 29 Dec '12, 17:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - and Title Fight
    
    Severed799 @Lililololaure | 30 Dec '12, 14:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
Chrvches

Laurel Halo
Swans
Japandroids
Ukkonen

very_small_monk | 18 Dec '12, 12:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
From either the site or the forums

DiS gave me John Talabot, Bats and lately, Chvrches (who I eagerly await an album from in 2013). DiS also convinced me to give Liars another go; my first full encounter with them had been Sisterworld, which I still find a jarring experience. WIXIW ticked many of the boxes Liars had previously crossed off, somehow.

Yvash | 18 Dec '12, 12:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
rather late to the game

Blood Red Shoes.

Love it. Thanks.

Stuzza | 18 Dec '12, 14:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
big shoutout to SHIPMENT... tirelessly promoting hip hop, really beneficial, cheers.

MrBones | 18 Dec '12, 14:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Loads of good stuff

Swans
Liars
Killer Mike

hanshotfirst | 18 Dec '12, 14:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
gonna give one of you this set of records

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151236248923145&set=a.472134573144.249403.19343183144&type=1

sean | 18 Dec '12, 15:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Can't pinpoint who or where but people talking about A Winged Victory for the Sullen (from last year I know)

lead me to love that album and get into Stars of the Lid, who I saw the other week and absolutely loved. Similarly, I saw Japandroids this year thanks to mentions on here. I get nearly everything from here these days. I don't have enough time or inclination to follow every link, but the good stuff always seems to filter through.

hip_young_gunslinger | 18 Dec '12, 16:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
- AWFTS still manages to amaze me
  
  I think, in terms of quality, its up there with any SOTL work.
  
  wonton @hip_young_gunslinger | 18 Dec '12, 16:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Thank you to those who recommended Sparks by Black Elk to me

Not quite an AOTY but one of my favourite ambient albums this year.

Richard Skelton's Verse of Birds is another, absolutely mesmering, pretty long though so haven't heard it enough yet.

Nosaj Thing - recommended to me due to similarities with FlyLo. Really great, and can't wait for his new album next year. Teebs too.

And I noticed Goat cropping up in a few users' top 5 albums...total sugarush of an album, but I hope they add a litle depth with future releases.

wonton | 18 Dec '12, 16:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
oddly enough, it has to be mclusky and Future of the left.

I absolutely love them now.

I would add to this BLONDES!

oojimaflop | 18 Dec '12, 17:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
Cloud Nothing's album

It's ace too.

Wouldn't have given it a chance otherwise.

moker | 18 Dec '12, 17:32 | X | ^ This | Reply

ma0sm and Oissin_ this'd this
- Yeah, from the name I assumed they were "chillwave" whatever that is
  
  Oissin_ @moker | 30 Dec '12, 16:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Wasted_Opportunity this'd this
radiohead

kilgore-trout | 18 Dec '12, 18:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Chromatics

and cloud nothings, thanks.

shakerwors | 18 Dec '12, 20:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

ma0sm this'd this
FOE

Thanks, she's great.

cosk | 18 Dec '12, 21:30 | X | ^ This | Reply

catshoe this'd this
Chvrches

Swans
Daniel Bachman (although that could've been late 2011)
Purity Ring
SALAMANDER

brainfeedr | 29 Dec '12, 12:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
perfume genius

booey | 29 Dec '12, 17:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
BATS

just loving "The Sleep of Reason". It's highly unlikely I'd have even heard of it if not for DiS, so thanks for that!

Also, Stumbleine.

LastAstronaut | 30 Dec '12, 13:31 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this
loads

this was the year I first properly listened to D'angelo

most of it is from the good folk of the rolling hip hip threads and the rolling dance mongrel ones
and maybe the ferware one

(I wish oneforghost still posted)

anal_schwarzenegger | 30 Dec '12, 13:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Shearwater

Think the album was streamed on here for a bit (or at least there was a link to it). Never really bothered with them before, but this turned out to probably be my album of the year, and they've got a great back catalogue that I've enjoyed discovering too.

sizeofanocean | 30 Dec '12, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

xilia this'd this
I lose track of where I've heard of stuff

But doubtless loads comes fom DIS.

Thanks to everyone who's recommended stuff. I love it when people speak passionately and knowledgeably about stuff they love.

Most recently, thanks for finally helping me to realise how amazing Hot Chip are and thanks for the great thread on new Modern Classical stuff, much of which I've been enjoying.

bornin69 | 30 Dec '12, 16:32 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this
Cardiacs

Which is odd, as it now feels like I've been listening to them forever

Oissin_ | 30 Dec '12, 16:53 | X | ^ This | Reply

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