New Music Recommendations 2012

Richard_stacy, it would appear that we are musically kindred spirits. From 2011 I would add:

Marconi Union - Beautifully Falling Apart (Ambient Transmissions Vol. 1)
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Bordeaux
Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
Nils Frahm - Felt
Black Swan - In 8 Movements
Antonymes - The Licence To Interpret Dreams
Olafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Harold Budd - In The Mist
Ryan Teague - Causeway
Robert Haigh - Strange And Secret Things
Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down
Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld
Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
Nicholas Szczepanik - Please Stop Loving Me

Olan Mill is releasing Home next week, which promises to be stellar. Limited edition CD of 300 copies.

I'd love to hear about some of your favorites. Hopefully others will be exposed to some overlooked and under explored musical genres.

Anyone interested in the electronic, ambient, neo-classical musical genres check out Fluid Radio Click on the Channel 1 link for streaming music.

BTW, I am also a fan of Rhythm & Sound!

A couple I have really been enjoying recently and highly
recommend:

Juju & Jordash "Techno Primitivism"

"Staggering new album of fusioneering 'Techno Primitivism'
from the A'dam-based Israeli ex-pats, Juju & Jordash. It's
fair to call this their debut album proper - following their
eponymous set of singles and an early digital collection
with this striking mission statement, a mazy and immersive
sound distilling elements of dub, jazz and psychedelia in a
tactile house and techno framework. It's testament to both
their nuanced skills as live musicians and studio boffins
par excellence, a mind-melt moire of analogue hardware
knowledge and hands-on vibes rendered with a diffuse sense
of synthesised space. We could be here all day picking out
highlights, but if you're only gonna check a few then the
unfathomably wide mixing trickery applied to 'Stoplight
Loosejaw' is a great start, as is the Mark Ernestus-meets-
Sun Ra vibes of 'Backwash', or the Augustus Pablo-in-Chicago
styles of 'Shakshuka Dub', while you can't go wrong with the
stoned descent of 'Dr. Strangepork' (great name!) and the
pensile, Carl Craig-like Detroit romance of 'Track David
Would Play'. It's kinda hard to believe these guys aren't
praised more widely, but with 'Techno Primitivism' now out
there, we suspect that's about to change. Outstanding."

Memotone "I Sleep. At Waking"

"Following a slew of 12”s, avant beatmaker William Yates has
finally rustled up this delicious full length for the Black
Acre label. Blending a passion for experimental classical
music with a clear understanding of bass music, Yate’s
vision is quite strikingly unique, fitting somewhere between
James Blake’s pointed piano experimentations, Demdike
Stare’s murky atmospherics and late-period Third Eye
Foundation. Yates’s talent is finding a connecting thread
between the sounds he’s obsessive about, and this makes for
an an absorbing full length."

I couldn't really describe either one so I included the
summary from Boomkat.com. I'll just say I concur and love
them both.

Some 2012 releases I'm diggin':

Frankie Rose - Interstellar. Ex-Dum Dum Girls hits a home run. Great indie-pop-rock.

Animal Collective - Centipede HZ. Not as immediate as Merriweather Post Pavilion but still mighty fine and deep.

the XX - Coexist. More of the same but that's a good thing.

Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe. Not nearly as good as her debut but still pretty decent.

Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues. The one from Sleater-Kinney who is NOT in WILD FLAG. Much improved over her first solo record from a few years a go.

Robert Rich - Nest. Ambient masterpiece.

Liars - WIXIW. Lots of electronics added to their usual sound.

Swans - The Seer. Bombastic beauty that is the Swans.

Tame Impala - Lonerism. Been wating for this. Psychedelic rock fans can do much worse than this and their first album.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!. Crescendo-core ala Mogwai meets Stars Of The Lid.

Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme. Black-metallers turned shoegaze.

Eclipse - Bleed & Scream. Total dirt-rock and throwback to 1987.

Really enjoying The Bad Plus release "Made Possible".

Glen Hansard!!!! Rhythm and Repose may be the best folk album I have heard in years!! If you like male folk singers , this album will amaze you.