What is your 2012 Album Of The Year?

Mine is the wonderful album above, Death Grips - The Money Store. It's experimental hip-hop and Death Grips are unlike anything I can describe. You can get their second album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, for free off their website. What is your AOTY?

Blown Away by Carrie Underwood. only album ive bought this year.

Album:

EP:

Split:

EDIT - Forgot the Torche album came out this year.

Dethkolk - Dethalbum III

A bit early, but I doubt anything will be able to top this for me:

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

Grizzly Bear - ShieldsNiff_T

Runner up

blown away by carrie underwood. only album ive bought this year.

konvikt_17

Dethkolk - Dethalbum III

despa1r_fact0r

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Either this...

or this...

This is only at the moment, though. There have been lots of great albums like the newest releases from Spawn of Possession, Echolyn, The Flower Kings, Napalm Death, Primal Fear, and Hemina that are also worth mentioning.

probably Velvet acid christ's "maldire". Cesium_137's "science and sound" is also a prime choice.

Asphyx - Deathhamer

Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes

NOFX - Self-Entitled

North atlantic drift-Canvas

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Dethkolk - Dethalbum III

Nude_Dude

Although I Ejaculate Fire is one of the funniest songs ever.

That's in my top 10. Fantastic follow up to Veckatimest.KEITH1437

Shields clicked with me much quicker than Veckatimest did. Took me a few months to see what was so great about it. Shields, on the other hand, grabbed me right away. It starts and ends with some of the best songs I've heard all year.

Since you brought it up, what is your top 10 at the moment?

Seriously probably some of the BEST dubstep and hip hop i've ever heard.

Shields clicked with me much quicker than Veckatimest did. Took me a few months to see what was so great about it. Shields, on the other hand, grabbed me right away. It starts and ends with some of the best songs I've heard all year.Niff_T

Since you brought it up, what is your top 10 at the moment?Niff_T

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Closely followed by:

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

[QUOTE="Niff_T"]Grizzly Bear - ShieldsKEITH1437

Visions by Grimes. Really close between that, Born To Die by Lana Del Rey and Unknown Rooms by Chelsea Wolfe though.

I've been really out of touch this year, so the only album from 2012 that I remember really buying is The Money Store.

[QUOTE="KEITH1437"][QUOTE="Niff_T"]Grizzly Bear - Shieldscfstar

I preffered Death Grips first album to be honest. But that's probably because it had the more accessible stuff on it.

Liked parts of JJ Doom. Retarded Fren, Guv'nor and Banished were great, but the rest was fairly ho-hum.

I'm really not sure. Just been waiting for Madvillain 2 and DoomStarks to drop. Keen on Earls new album now that he's moved on from OF's crappy aesthetic.

Pretty much an instant classic. Only other album I'm looking forward to for the remainder of the year is Deftones... They put out gold in 2010 so I have high hopes.

-Tish-

This, by far.

I preffered Death Grips first album to be honest. But that's probably because it had the more accessible stuff on it.

Liked parts of JJ Doom. Retarded Fren, Guv'nor and Banished were great, but the rest was fairly ho-hum.

I'm really not sure. Just been waiting for Madvillain 2 and DoomStarks to drop. Keen on Earls new album now that he's moved on from OF's crappy aesthetic.

OB-47

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I preffered Death Grips first album to be honest. But that's probably because it had the more accessible stuff on it.

Liked parts of JJ Doom. Retarded Fren, Guv'nor and Banished were great, but the rest was fairly ho-hum.

I'm really not sure. Just been waiting for Madvillain 2 and DoomStarks to drop. Keen on Earls new album now that he's moved on from OF's crappy aesthetic.

KEITH1437

Yeah it's hard to get into these dudes (unless it's Guillotoine which just makes you nod your head instantly) but the stuff they do is so damn interesting.

Loving Victory Laps by Doomstarks at the moment, Avalanche sounds fantastic too. Madvillain will dominate next year

Don't really have one that stands out as head and shoulders above the rest (although I've just started listening to Kendrick Lamar), but the short list would be:

• Purity Ring- Shrines (probably would've been my pick if they didn't release half the album as free singles beforehand)
• Grizzly Bear- Shields
• Japandroids- Celebration Rock
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
• Grimes- Visions
• Frankie Rose- Interstellar

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• Purity Ring- Shrines (probably would've been my pick if they didn't release half the album as free singles beforehand)

Slow_Show

I'm with you. I still really really like that album (probably my 2nd favorite of the year), but I would've been much more blown away by it if I wasn't aware of Purity Ring until the album actually came out as a whole

Also:

Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS

Gallows - Gallows

Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense

Death Grips - The Money Store

DZ Deathrays - Bloodstreams

Django Django - Django Django

Pulled Apart By Horses - Tough Love

This by far.

KL is the best in the game right now, bar none.

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blown away by carrie underwood. only album ive bought this year.

Michael0134567

i quite like it. but then im a big Carrie fan.

id suggest some of her more upbeat songs if youd like to start listening to her.

Blown Away

Good Girl

Cowboy Casanova

Last Name

Undo It

NO LOVE DEEP WEB by Death Grips

Honorable Mention: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"][QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

blown away by carrie underwood. only album ive bought this year.

konvikt_17

i quite like it. but then im a big Carrie fan.

id suggest some of her more upbeat songs if youd like to start listening to her.

Blown Away

Good Girl

Cowboy Casanova

Last Name

Undo It

All of the remasters of Frank Zappa's albums.

Especially this one:

or

and then there's

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

Chromatics - Kill for Love

Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

Marissa Nadler - The Sister

Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways

Ricardo Donoso - Assimilating the Shadow

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar & Clear Moon

Burial - Kindred

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

The Isolated Rhythms of Ukkonen

James Blackshaw - Love is the Plan...

Voices From the Lake

Zelienople - The World is a House On Fire

Sic Alps

Godspeed! - 'Allelujah!...

Swans - The Seer

Death Grips Album was pretty good and I'm not a massive hip-hop/rap fan so That's saying something.

I listen to alot of music but I don't really follow the release dates so I'm sure I've listen to more albums that I liked over the year but

andSquarepusher-Ufabulum

Are the only ones I keep coming back to consistently.

Death Grips Album was pretty good and I'm not a massive hip-hop/rap fan so That's saying something.

I listen to alot of music but I don't really follow the release dates so I'm sure I've listen to more albums that I liked over the year but

andSquarepusher-Ufabulum

Are the only ones I keep coming back to consistently.

shadowkiller11

Square's new album wasn't that good in the view of a Warp fanboy like myself. I loved Dark Steering, but the album as a whole lacked that creativity that he had on other albums. Felt too cold and influenced by this generations electro.

Cafe Tacuba: El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco

Followed closely by Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar

Lots of people hate it, but I'm a fan.

[QUOTE="shadowkiller11"]

Death Grips Album was pretty good and I'm not a massive hip-hop/rap fan so That's saying something.

I listen to alot of music but I don't really follow the release dates so I'm sure I've listen to more albums that I liked over the year but

andSquarepusher-Ufabulum

Are the only ones I keep coming back to consistently.

OB-47

Square's new album wasn't that good in the view of a Warp fanboy like myself. I loved Dark Steering, but the album as a whole lacked that creativity that he had on other albums. Felt too cold and influenced by this generations electro.

Cafe Tacuba: El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco

Followed closely by Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar

Solid_Link22

Those guys suck

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