squarepusher WATMM's 2012 Album Of The Year - Nominations

[eh Speedy]

OK let's get the show on the road here. We've got a little over a month for nominations and voting so no excuses if your picks don't make it in. I'll start us out right, in no particular order:

 

Lone - Galaxy Garden

Death Grips - The Money Store

Squarepusher - Ufabulum

Panabrite - The Baroque Atrium

Panabrite - Soft Terminal

Actress - R.I.P

Holy Other - Held

Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games

Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3

Slugabed - Time Team

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Four Tet - Pink

Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton

DeepChord presents Echospace - Silent World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

DeepChord presents Echospace - Sommer

Plug - Back On Time

Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

Cygnus - Cybercity Z-ro

Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics

Demdike Stare - Elemental

Meat Beat Manifesto - The Forger (from Test EP)

Photodementia - Fig. 03

[Guest cult fiction]

CN - Obscure Research

Jodey Kendrick - Steel Erector

Cybertone - Cybertone

JJ Doom - Key to the Kuffs

Ital Tek - Nebula Dance

[murve33]

My Personal Nominations

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy

Odd Nosdam - Vol. 9

Matthew Friedberger - Matricidal Sons of Bitches

Matthew Friedberger - Goodbye Forever

Matthew Friedberger - Artemisia

Leyland Kirby The Caretaker - Extra Patience After Sebald

Lilacs & Champagne - Lilacs & Champagne

Alexander Tucker - Third Mouth

Steinvord - Steinvord

 

And last but not least...

Rarney Bubble - Rarney Bubble Thinks Outside the Bun

 

Honorable Mentions

Oh No - Ohnomite

Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE

[Guest Tatem]

Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton

Lone - Galaxy Garden

Actress - RIP

Manual - Awash (mini-LP)

[eh Speedy]

Got a separate thread for EPs/singles.

 

Oh AMPMX - Monster Guts was amazing too.

[rstark]

nathan fake - steam days

mr 76ix - experiment four

[jeremymacgregor87]

Does Mouse on Mars - WOW count as an EP or album?

[Friendly Foil]

Iradelphic.

[Npoess]

Actress - R.I.P.
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Four Tet - Pink
Holy Other - Held
Loscil - Skecthes From New Brighton
Deepchord - Sommer
Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ Ep's
Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
Fennesz - AUN
Clubroot - III - MMXII
Monolake - Ghosts
Scuba - Personality
The Host - The Host
Steve Hauschildt - Sequitur

[Blir]

Grischa Lichtenberger - And IV (Inertia)

[zkom]

Gas Lamp Killer - Breakthrough

NHK^Koyxen - Dance Classics Vol I

NHK^Koyxen - Dance Classics Vol II

Ital - Dream On

Ital - Hive Mind

Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya

Team Doyobi - Digital Music Volume 1

The Wyrding Module - Mellifluous Ichor From Sunless Regions

Atom TM - Winterreisse

The Orb Featuring Lee 'Scratch' Perry - The Orbserver In The Star House

[Nil]

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse

Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

Aleksi Perälä - Mental Union

Jodey Kendrick - +10

Legowelt - The Paranormal Soul

I:Cube - M Megamix

EPs by EOD, Fah, Somaticae, Bee Mask

Impakt's Soundcloud tracks

[zkom]

Forgot two great albums..

 

Ametsub - All Is Silence

36 - Lithea

[Guest Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald]

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

Death Grips - No Love Deep Web

Die Antwoord - Ten$ion

El-P - Cancer 4 Cure

Grimes - Visions

Sand Circles - Motor City

Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman

[Ivan Ooze]

Not mentioned yet

 

Mala - Mala in Cuba

Young Smoke - Space zone

TNGHT - TNGHT

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid maad city

Vladislav Delay - Kuopio/espoo

Otto von schirach - Supermeng

[Hugh Mughnus]

Clark - Iradelphic

Squarepusher - Ufabulum

Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics

Otto Von Schirach - Supermeng

Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

[joshuatxuk]

Like last year, I'm sure there are many more I would say deserve top spot. I've streamed must of what's above me but I can only really attest to listening to these on repeat:

 

1991 - 1991

1991 - High-Tech High-Life

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

Burial - Kindred

Menomena - Moms

xx - Coexist

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Matthewdavid - DISK II

[patternoverlap]

This is what I've liked of what I heard this year thus far:

 

Grischa Lichtenberger - And IV (Inertia)

Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games

Zander One - Echoate

Entogora - Typhon

Last Step - Sleep

Ambient News - Zweite Sendung

Salamander - Neocambrian

Konx-Om-Pax - Regional Surrealism

Polysick - Digital Native

Actress - R.I.P.

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

1991 - 1991

Coppice Halifax - Verdant Acre

[Cryptowen]

Death Grips - The Money Store

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City

 

there's probably more I'll nominate

[BobDobalina]

Blockhead - Interludes After Midnight

Mohn - Mohn

Daphni - Jiaolong

 

Everything else I'd nominate has been mentioned already (great job! watmm). R.I.P., Parastrophics, Ametsub & Flying Lotus have been my favorites.

 

Maybe leave nominations open a week or so into the new year so as to catch any late releases?

[azatoth]

Sommer is just a Deepchord album.

 

Kettel & Secede - When Can

[kichiguy]

Chora(s)an Time-Court Mirage - Live At The Grimm Museum Volume One

Daniel Menche - Guts

Frog Pocket - Frog & The Volcano

Grouper - Violet Replacement

Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing

Jim Haynes - Kamchatka

KTL - V

Scald Rougish - Auen Ansici / Bardachd

Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant - Beyond All Defects

Slomo - The Grain

[Soloman Tump]

Best albums of the year according to me (in no particular order yet)

• Frog Pocket - Frog and the Volcano (Self release)
• Last Step - Sleep (Planet Mu)
• Grischa Litchtenberger - And IV (Inertia) (Raster Noton)
• Ruby My Dear - Remains of Shapes to Come (Ad Noiseam)
• Mr 76ix - Experiment Four (Skam)
• Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways (punch Drunk)
• Oberman Knocks - Beatcroff Slabs (Aperture Records)
• Actress - RIP (Honest Jon's)
• Necro Deathmort - The Colonial Script (Distraction)
• iTAL tEK - Nebula Dance (Planet Mu)
• Julia Holter - Ekstasis (RVNG)
• Squarepusher - Ufabulum (Warp)
• The Host - The Host (Planet Mu)
• TechDiff - P.Conv (Ad Noiseam)
• Lorn - Ask the Dust (Ninja Tune)
• Shed - The Killer (50 weapons)
• Slugabed - Time Team (Ninja Tune)
• Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Modern Love)

[spratters]

Ones haven't yet been said:

 

Quakers - Quakers

Micronaut - Friedfisch

Bonobo - Black Sands Remixed

Scuba - Personality

Dimlite - Abscission

Willits & Sakamoto - Ancient Future

 

Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano 2

Black Elk - Sparks

[kirm]

Cex - Pressumed Dead/ Masokismi/ Stan

Scald Rougish - Auen Ansici/Bardachd

Actress - R.I.P

Trim - Bandoolou

Monolake - Ghosts

Shackleton - Drawbard e,ps/Music for the quiet hour

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

Raime - Quarter turns over a living line

Holy Other - Held

Andy Stott - Luxury problems

 

Cant be arsed to post in the ep 1s as not got that many this year but Burial Kindred E.P has to get a mention!