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Couldn't be arsed to wait til the end of the year - everything from now on is charity singles and other s**t.

So, what was your favourite new CD/download of 2012?

For me it was an easy win this year:

Swans - The Seer

Seconded (only if i have to chose only one).

A Pale Horse Named Death-And Hell Will Follow Me..oh wait no that's 2011

then Moonspell-Alpha Noir/Omega White for 2012

My favourites of 2012 (at time of posting) :

1. Killing Joke - Glitch (still putting out in your face music after all these years, even if this does sound like Intravenous)
2. Megaherz - Heute Nacht (one for Rammstein fans)
3. Dali's Car - If You Go Away (impossibly poignant in the circumstances)
4. Dutch Order - Contact (still a mystery why such a Joy Division influenced band are so popular at WGW)
5. Rammstein - Gib Mir Deine Augen (they can still come up with the odd new track despite a style creative block)
6. Terminal Gods - Electric Eyes (the energy of early Killers, the dynamics of the Violets and the swagger of )
etc etc

Not a vintage year but any year with a decent KJ album is still a cause for celebration.

I think I'll go for...

lazarus corporation wrote:For me it was an easy win this year:

Swans - The Seer

ditto.

Angels of Liberty: "Pinnacle of the Draco"

Brilliantly, hilariously arch goffick rock.

By all means and with thanks to Izzy for pointing me there.

'Of Monsters and Men' - My Head is an Animal, an easy winner for me.

also enjoyed the latest from 'Smoke Fairies' - Blood Speaks

Really don't buy much new stuff but I'm hoping for this on Christmas day:

Back in time wrote:

By all means and with thanks to Izzy for pointing me there.

For me, best release is without any doubt THE EYE OF TIMEs self-titled album...

http://www.discogs.com/Eye-Of-Time-The- ... ter/414278




IZ.

New Soungarden Album !!!!!!!

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:My favourites of 2012 (at time of posting) :

1. Killing Joke - Glitch (still putting out in your face music after all these years, even if this does sound like Intravenous)

Not a vintage year but any year with a decent KJ album is still a cause for celebration.

With you on this.

And next year you can spend £216 on

On Monday 15 April 2013, the new Killing Joke album The Singles Collection will be released. As the title suggests, the album is a document of our single releases from the start of the band right up to the present date.

The super-deluxe version of the album is a very special release, available to pre-order here in limited quantities and something that we have worked closely with our label to create and bring together.

The super-deluxe limited edition package includes:

- a hand-numbered hinge lid ‘cigar box’ made from 1500mcn black lined rigid board finished with matt print retrospective artwork;

- a 33 career spanning CD singles plus select B-Sides in full colour card wallets featuring original artwork;

- a rarities disc including previously unreleased studio tracks;

- a 32 page perfect bound book including rare photos, archive notes, band commentary;

- a poster designed and hand signed by long time Killing Joke artist, Mike Coles, printed on 250gsm silk art;

- an aluminium screw top branded cigar tube containing original wrappers of cigars smoked by Jaz Coleman and Paul Raven during the recording of ‘Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell’.

Gatherers will be able to pre-order The Singles Collection super-deluxe box set for a limited period, only via PledgeMusic, and with the closing date for orders (to allow for manufacture) being Monday 4th February 2013.

I love the band but bloody hell did no-one tell them there is a recession on?

(I only bought two new CD's this year though)

spot778 wrote:

oh my

Too hard to name just one...

I wouldn't point Langean's Blues Funeral as the best- that is very decent music, it doesn't brought anything new to music, but remind some of greatest parts/piece of XX cenutrury music.

That's one way to look at it, Bartek. I suppose I didn't think of 'best one' in that way, but more in the 'what album released in 2012 did you like best' kind of way.
(Still, I don't think Blues Funeral could have been made in the nineties)

If I follow your way of thinking then it would be one of the other three I mentioned. At the moment I'd say Andy Stott's Luxury Problems.

But taking your point of view, Blues Funeral is high on my list best of 2012

radiojamaica wrote:Too hard to name just one...

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Holy Other, a fine album!

radiojamaica wrote:That's one way to look at it, Bartek. I suppose I didn't think of 'best one' in that way, but more in the 'what album released in 2012 did you like best' kind of way.
(Still, I don't think Blues Funeral could have been made in the nineties)

If I follow your way of thinking then it would be one of the other three I mentioned. At the moment I'd say Andy Stott's Luxury Problems.

For (what little) it's worth, the two albums released last year that really did it for me were Blues Funeral and The Seer. The Lanegan record was better than most records, period. I really, really like it. The problem is that it was not better than most Lanegan records. That doesn't mean that it's not very good. It just means that it doesn't quite live up to his previous standards (which was bound to happen eventually).

But Langean's Christmas album? Fabulous.