White Hills- s/t

tracklist

1. Dead
2. Counting Sevens
3. Three Quarters
4. Let the Right One In
5. We Will Rise
6. Glacial
7. Polvere di Stelle

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High On Fire- Snakes For The Divine

tracklist

1. Snakes for the Divine
2. Frost Hammer
3. Bastard Samurai
4. Ghost Neck
5. The Path
6. Fire, Flood, and Plague
7. How Dark We Pray
8. Holy Flames of The Fire Spitter

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Swell Maps- Jane From Occupied Europe

The least typical post-punk band.

tracklist

1. Robot Factory
2. Let's Buy a Bridge
3. Border Country
4. Cake Shop Girl
5. Helicopter Spies
6. Big Maz in the Desert From the Trolley
7. Big Empty Field
8. Mining Villages
9. Collision With a Frogman .Vs. The Mangrove Delta Plan
10. Secret Island
11. Whatever Happens Next. . .
12. Blenheim Shots
13. A Raincoat's Room
14. The Stairs Are Like an Avalanche (Bonus Track)
15. New York (Bonus Track)

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Faust- IV

Faust, particularly the mighty "IV", took the electronic experimentation of their krautrock peers like Cluster and Kraftwerk and added a certain WTF!! that made them a major influence on some of avant-garde rocks least compromising acts like Swell Maps, Pere Ubu, Dead C and Sonic Youth, bands that would influence many others in turn. A true musical Landmark

tracklist

1. Krautrock
2. The Sad Skinhead
3. Jennifer
4. Just a Second (Starts Like That!)
5. Picnic on a Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
6. Giddy Smile
7. Lauft...Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Lauft
8. It's a bit of a Pain

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Titan- A raining Sun of Light & Love for You....

An albums worth of blistering heavy space psych. A sac ripping riff fest of epic proportion. Makes me forget why I'm not supposed to lounge around on soft pillows, smoking opium 24-7.

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Sunn 0)))- Flight of the Behemoth

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Bunkur- Bludgeon

Extremely ummm..... primitive

tracklist

1. Bludgeon

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Bloody Panda- Summon

Best Doom record of 2009

tracklist

1. Gold
2. Pusher
3. Saccades I
4. Saccades II
5. Miserere
6. Grey
7. Hashira

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Moss- Cthonic Rites

Slower than a continental Plate, and just as heavy, vocals that would give Khanate the creeps, not for the faint of heart. Hail, doom!

tracklist

1. Crypts of Somnamblunce
2. The Gate

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Leviathan/ Xasthur Split

Xasthur:

1. The Eerie Bliss And Torture (of Solitude)

2. Keeper of Sharpened Blades (And Ominous Fates)

3. Conjuration of Terror

4. Instrunental

Leviathan:

5. Unfailing Fall into Naught

6. The Remotest Cipher (Beside the Last Breath Banished)

Two grown men screaming like girls about loneliness and shit. Still way better than 99% of the stuff out there.

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Year of No Light- Nord

Year of No Light are a post-metal band from where else? France. These guys definitely wear their influences on their sleeves, as it were. When you first listen to it you'll be convinced it's Isis (albeit with some Neurosis and a touch of converge thrown in. a couple nods to Jesu perhaps) In this case, that is definitely a good thing. This album full of incredible builds, super heavy dirge riffs, and impassioned vocal workouts blended flawlessly with neurosis like ambience, and soaring guitar melodies. And all of it done at such a high level of skill that "Nord" Clearly stands toe-to-toe with the best work it's predecessors have done. A new album is long overdue

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Labradford- Mi Media Naranja

Seminal release from kranky records. It's easy to see why bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor and Deerhunter/Atlas Sound were so keen on having the label release their records.

tracklist

1. S
2. G
3. WR
4. C
5. I
6. V
7. P

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Trashcan Sinatras- Cake

The most criminally overlooked album in the history of british guitar pop. Trashcan Sinatras weave intricate tapestries of infectious guitar pop, it's the type of album you can listen to for years and still find new things. Wether your mood be one of celebration or reflection, you'll find this album more than up to the task. You'll be hard pressed to find something as sweet yet filling as "Cake" (yes, I went there!) Not to be missed!!!

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Eyehategod- Take as Needed for Pain

Remember when you would go to your grandma's on holidays, and she would play that old-timey southern sludge rock. Well, I don't. I guess your grandma is just cooler than mine.

tracklist

1. Blank
2. Sister Fucker, Pt. 1
3. Shoplift
4. White Nigger
5. 30$ Bag
6. Disturbance
7. Take as Needed for Pain
8. Sister Fucker, Pt. 2
9. Crimes Against Skin
10. Kill Your Boss
11. Who Gave Her the Roses
12. Laugh It Off

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Oranssi Pazazu- Muukalainen Puhuu

The problem end of year lists is there are so many albums released during any given year that one can only give a very small percentage of them a fair listen. I just found this slice of finnish prog black metal that came out last year, and it is a piece of unmatched goodness, totally epic blackened space prog. I mean what else would you expect from a black metal album with an astronaut on the cover and a band logo shaped like a bird?! 2009 album of the year!!!

tracklist

1. Korppi
2. Danjon Nolla
3. Kangastus 1968
4. Suuri Pää Taivaasta
5. Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Teatterin Rukoilijasirkka
6. Dub Kuolleen Porton Muistolle
7. Muukalainen Puhuu
8. Kerettiläinen Vuohi

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Citay- Dream Get Together

Ezra Feinberg(Piano Magic) and Tim Green(Fucking Champs, Earthless, Weakling) aka Citay have crafted a highly infectious, poppy, neo-psych album that absolutely fucking shreds!! Easy album of the year Contender.

traclklist

1. Careful With That Hat
2. Return From Silence
3. Dream Get Together
4. Secret Breakfast
5. Mirror Kisses
6. Hunter
7. Fortunate Sun
8. Tugboat

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Citizens Arrest - A Light in the Darkness

1. Serve And Protect

2. In the Distance

3. Fortress

4. A Light in the Darkness

5. Woodstock

6. Without Peace

7. Death Threat

8. I Won't Allow

If you like catchy, fun, good time music don't download this. If you enjoy screaming "DEATH THREAT" at the top of your lungs: Do. Props to whatever blog i downloaded this from.

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Bohren and Der Club of Gore- Midnight Black Earth

"horror jazz". Late rainy night back alley saxophone balladry. Completely chill and yet completely chilling. Highly recommended!!

tracklist

1. Midnight Black Earth
2. Crimson Ways
3. Maximum Black
4. Vigilante Crusade
5. Dsestroying Angels
6. Grave Wisdom
7. Constant Fear
8. Skeletal Remains
9. The Art of Coffins

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Black Mayonnaise- Ttssattsr

Do you like good music?

If your answer to the previous question is no, then I have a rare treat for you. This saucer of pure audio diarrea would sound something like a cross between Godflesh, Sunn0))) and Hawkwind, if those bands consisted entirely of autistic eight-year olds on heroin. Home recorded Lo-fi retard space-sludge with cave man vocals possibly recorded in an actual cave. I would kill to see this guy land a spot on "american-idol". Afterthought: The lyrical content is probably "ttssattr!" not "aargghh!"

tracklist

1. Ttssattsr
2. Delirium
3. Narcotic Fog
4. Floating Body I
5. Spherics
6. Floating Body II
7. Struck by Lightning
8. Graveyard
9. Ttssattsr

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Neanderthal - Fighting Music 7"

I am a Matt Domino and Eric Wood fanboy. I can't stop listening to the new Bastard Noise and Low Threat Profile albums.

1. Crawl

2. Neuter

3. Brain Tourniquet

4. Mind Eraser

5. Kill, Eat and Breed

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Tortoise- Millions Now Living Will Never Die (import)

Tracklist

1. Djed
2. Glass Museum
3. A Survey
4. The Taut and Tame
5. Dear Grandma and Grandpa
6. Along the Banks of Rivers
7. Gamera (bonus)
8. Goriri (bonus)
9. Restless Waters (bonus)

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Burn -s/t ep

1. Shall Be Judged

2. Godhead

3. Drown

4. Out of Time

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Earth- 2

The album that started it all. Dylan Carson sold Kurt Cobain the shotgun, and made distortion cool

tracklist

1. Seven Angels
2. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
3. Like Gold and Faceted

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Codeine- Frigid Stars

Alongside bands like Low, Bedhead, and American Analog Set, The Aptly named Codeine were part of the "slowcore" scene of the mid 90's. Codeine play extremely slow tempo guitar rock, try to imagine doom metal without the metal and replace the doom with reflective resignation and you have codeine. Perfect mood music for staying in on a rainy day such as this.

tracklist

1. D
2. Gravel Bed
3. Pick Up Song
4. New Year's
5. Second Chance
6. Cave-in
7. Cigarette Machine
8. Old Things
9. 3 Angels
10. Pea

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Oxbow- Fuckfest

A thank you to the good folks at Hydrahead for reissuing this brutal slab of naked terror

tracklist

1. Curse
2. 30 Miles
3. The Valley
4. Bull's Eye
5. Yoke
6. Hunger

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Four Tet- There Is Love In You

Time to relax a little

Tracklist

1. Angel Echoes
2. Love Cry
3. Circling
4. Pablo's Heart
5. Sing
6. This Unfolds
7. Reversing
8. Plastic People
9. She Just Likes To Fight

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Harvey Milk- Harvey Milk

The "lost" first album, which was, I believe, recovered recently while the band was looking under the couch cushions for beer money.

tracklist:

1. Blueberry Dookie
2. Plastic Eggs
3. Merlin is Magic
4. Dating Pressures
5. My Father's Life's Work
6. Probolcok
7. Smile
8. Jim's Polish
9. F.S.T.P.
10. Anthem

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