favorite albums this year?

Can anyone recommend any decent rock/bands thats come out in the last year+

I've fallen massively out of the loop. The last album I got was Billy Talent - Dead Silence. Before that I can't even remember.

Is Uno! actually any good? Don't bother replying to that if your 'internet' cool.

I've quickly scanned the thread and I'll have to get Coheeds new album and Mumfords. I'l keep looking but obv haven't heard of half of it.

Jodis - Black Curtain

@Animasta: Fair nuff...

Coheed & Cambria's The Afterman: Ascension. Such a killer album, absolutely can't wait for the second half, Descension to drop in February. Also Gojira's new beast of a record and Cannibal Corpse's Torture.

Posting to say I also like Om.

Lots of great taste in this thread. Was kind of surprised to see people namedrop bands like Behold... The Arctopus and Yakuza and stuff. Giant Bomb just gets cooler and cooler.

But the real answer?

Dysrhythmia - Test of Submission

Just gets more and more stunning with every listen. Technically, it's utterly bonkers. Demented math-rock, but the actual music itself doesn't suffer. The music itself speaks volumes, it's so emotive and beautiful despite being so dissonant and all over the place. And it has lovely production too! I'd highly recommend it to... Well.. Anyone, provided they're not afraid of a bit of dissonance. It's truly staggering music.

Edit: Fuck it, full album stream here. Listen to it in its entireity, and if you like it, buy it and support these guys! It's on Bandcamp, and it's worth getting a lossless version for the gorgeous production. Seriously fucking listen to this!!

Edit Edit: Also, eff yeah, OP. Advaitic Songs is wonderful. Blisses me out every time. Those guys know what it's all about...

Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods

Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension

The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

Yellow and Green by Baroness tops the list, other albums out from this year that are awesome are Time I by Wintersun, Apocryphon by The Sword, Blunderbuss by Jack White, Now for Plan A by The Tragically Hip and Soundgarden's new album comes out in a few weeks.

Parkway Drive-Atlas

Best Metalcore Album I've ever heard, hands down. It comes out next Tuesday, but it 'leaked' to Youtube this morning

life is good - nas

album of the year

Loma Prieta - I.V.

Killer Mike - RAP Music

TNGHT - TNGHT

milo - Milo takes Baths

Other stuff still in consideration, or just tracks I liked:

Kendrick Lamar - GKMC

Flylo - Between Friends

El-P - C4C

Some kitty pryde tracks

XXYXX

Pop. 1280 is down my alley but I never have time to listen to it

A few Death Grips tracks

Cerce - Cerce

Rise of a Digital Nation for sure 
 
Been a huge fan of Machinae Supremacy for... 12 years now. (god, it's been that long?) 
Stuff keeps getting better and better.  
 
Some might disagree, but I don't care. 

Devin Townsend Project's 'Epicloud' stole the show for me this year. But Stone Sour's 'House of Gold and Bones' was unexpectedly enjoyable.

Brasstronaut - Mean Sun. Mean Sun is probably my album of the year (sorry Devin). Brasstronaut took their indie-jazz sound into ambient territory, and it couldn't have turned out better.

Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (& Epiclouder)

Anneke van Giersbergen - Everything is Changing

Flying Colors - Flying Colors

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Meshuggah - Koloss

Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension

Jeff Pearce - In The Season of Fading Light

Baroness - Yellow & Green

Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

I'm listening to Storm Corrosion (Mikael Akerfeldt and Steven Wilson), and that's probably gonna end up on this list too.

EDIT: Storm Corrosion is definitely on this list, near the top. I was not expecting what that album is at all. And I forgot about Baroness' Yellow and Green, so that's there now too.

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity

Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme

Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

Desecravity - Implicit Obedience

Bastard Sapling - Dragged From Our Restless Trance

Judd Madden - Artesian You can legally get it for free from his Bandcamp. Give him money though. It's good.

I was going to post earlier but I had a ton of stuff I wanted to hear first. I've still got a decent backlog to go through so this might not even be the complete list. It's been an absolutely legendary year.

i got stone sour CD a few days ago. it's pretty good. i kind of thought that it would of been longer than what it was. it's still good. i enjoy stone sour.

Might as well add Clockwork Angels by Rush and Apocryphon by Sword to the list....

I'm usually a lurker, but I saw this thread and needed to say check out Crystal Kay's Vivid. It's my favorite album of the year, and an amazing comeback for her after switching labels.

http://jpopsuki.tv/video/Crystal-Kay---Forever/4d96f8e36c683e07338202b0a486cb88

http://jpopsuki.tv/video/Crystal-Kay---Delicious-na-Kinyoubi/113b6bf2487336ed6483ba25583dbc04

http://jpopsuki.tv/video/Crystal-Kay---Superman/5b948c3c4849d088bd29442df190510c

It'll probably break any stereotypes you have about J-Pop, too. :)

Six Feet Under: Undead

Testament: Dark Roots of Earth

Shadows Fall: Fire From The Sky

Lamb of God: Resolution

Cannibal Corpse: Torture

@murisan said:

Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods

Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension

The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

Thanks for recommending that Silversun Pickups album. I hadn't heard one of their songs in years. That seems like a great new album.

I'm not sure if it's on my list yet but anyone who likes tech-death needs to check out Cytotoxin's new album that came out yesterday. Here's a song from it. You can get it for $12 from the label here. It's really solid. I need to get their first album now.

Disclaimer: the vocalist pig squeals occasionally. If you don't like that style, you won't like this.

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Mac DeMarco - Two

The Script - #3

Kris Allen - Thank You Camellia

Grimes - Visions

Death Grips - The Money Store

Dinsaur Jr - I Bet on Sky

Do re-issues count? If so Archers of Loaf's All the Nations Airports takes it, but if not probably .fun's Some Nights.

i may have said this already but "good kid maad city" and "life is good" are both stellar.

Dethklok - Dethalbum III

P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here

looking through this thread of albums i have largely never heard of (and mostly dislike after researching and listening to their highly specialized and nearly unpalatable sound) makes me finally understand how people felt about me when I told them what my favorite albums of the year were in 1993 when I was 14 years old. i guess that makes me officially old. i've listened to 3 albums released in 2012, and very few have mentioned them. enjoy your oblivious youth, kids.

Probably Babel by Mumford and Sons and My Head is an Animal by Of Monsters and Men.

...Eh.

I found my copy of Punk in Drublic when I helped my dad move this summer. NOFX still holds up.

Kendrick Lamar, good kid M.A.A.D. city

Nas- Life is Good

Death Grips- Money Store

I Am Gemini - Cursive

@UitDeToekomst said:

looking through this thread of albums i have largely never heard of (and mostly dislike after researching and listening to their highly specialized and nearly unpalatable sound) makes me finally understand how people felt about me when I told them what my favorite albums of the year were in 1993 when I was 14 years old. i guess that makes me officially old. i've listened to 3 albums released in 2012, and very few have mentioned them. enjoy your oblivious youth, kids.

Oblivious to what? What people think of our music tastes? I'm not oblivious, I'm apathetic.

I don't listen to lot of modern music it seems. Although would need to mention Clockwork Angles and Gojira's new album. Not heard the new The Sword yet.

edit. Actually Paradise Lots's Tragic Idol was from this year as well. Not too bad that.

Katatonia's Dead End Kings is the best they've sounded since Viva Emptiness.

The new Ihsahn album was sick beyond belief, it might be my favorite from this year.

Sigh's In Somniphobia was really solid though Sigh is always solid so that goes without saying.

Diablo Swing Orchestra's Pandora's Pinata is fantastic.

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do  
Stealing Sheep - Into the Diamond Sun (thanks Sony Press Conference)

I think I found my album of the year. Carach Angren's Where the Corpses Sink Forever. Their first two albums are great and this is no different. Do yourself a favor and go get it.

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity and Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme.

Crap, forgot this bad boy.

New Crystal Castles is pretty hot.

Soundgarden's new album King Animal is pretty awesome, especially after a 16 year break between records. It was the last one I was looking forward to this year. RNDM's album Acts came out of nowhere for me but I'm really digging it. List for this year is:

-Yellow and Green by Baroness

-Acts by RNDM

-King Animal by Soundgarden

-Apocryphon by The Sword

-At Transformation by The Tragically Hip

-Time I by Wintersun

There's been a few others I've enjoyed but wouldn't count them among my favourites for this year.

Adding Crystal Castles - (III) to my list.

Also, all of Portishead's stuff, as I'm the last person alive to discover them, apparently. They're not from this year, but I just now heard them.

I stopped keeping track after the last one of these. I've listened to too many albums this year.

How To Destroy Angels - An Omen

How To Destroy Angels - An Omen

HOW TO DESTROY FUCKING ANGELS - AN OMEN

The new POS, Passion Pit, and Japandroids albums were all great.

Kishi Bashi's debut is also fantastic.

But my favorite albums of the year will probably have to be The Church of Rock N Roll by Foxy Shazam and The Glorious Dead by The Heavy.

Deftones' 'Koi No Yokan' blows away pretty much everything else I've heard this year. Holy fuck, what an amazing, beautiful record. Probably the best thing they've ever done.

"Honor Found In Decay" by Neurosis, "I Bet On Sky" by Dinosaur Jr. and "PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone" by John Frusciante are in my definite Top 3 this year.