Amon Duul II- Yeti

Amon Duul II were on the outer fringes of the already outer fringe scene of late 60's early 70's german experimental rock (aka krautrock). This is some of the most out there druggy free-kraut-improv-psych ever recorded. I'm guessing these people were on some shit that gets you in touch with some other shit, if you know what i'm saying. Makes King Crimson sound like Stars of The Lid.

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sparklehorse- It's a Wonderful Life

RIP Mark Linkous

tracklist

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Gold Day
3. Piano Fire
4. Sea of Teeth
5. Apple Bed
6. King of Nails
7. Eyepennies
8. Dog Door
9. More Yellow Birds
10. Little Fat Baby
11. Devil's New
12. Comfort Me
13. Babies on the Sun

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Striborg- Autumnal Melancholy

Aptly dubbed "The Black-Metal Jandek", Striborg has spent much of the last decade self-recording his own albums from his seclusion deep in the Tasmanian forests. The songs alternate between burzumic atmospheric pieces, and worded fair typically consisting of home recorded drums and guitar and his signature high pitched croak. AmateurishIy recorded with a seemingly early Mountain Goats inspired buzz covering everything. Imangine Gollum singing misanthropic dirges from deep under his mountain, disturbing stuff indeed. Extremely fucked-up brilliance.

tracklist

1. The Scrying Mirror
2. The Void and Cloudless Sky
3. As a Hermit Hiding in the Trance of Night
4. In Opressive Silence
5. The Manifestation of Black Residual Energy
6. Autumnal Melancholy
7. Meandering in Sorrow
8. Transfiguration of Terror

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Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska

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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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