After having only five games to pick from for the top five games list, I’m spoilt for choice when it comes to music selection. Only problem is I haven’t really found much new music I like this year. Either new bands popping up sounding like ‘lite’ versions of bands I was expecting (The Knife, Queens Of The Stone Age and MGMT releases ran off into 2013) or it was popular bands pushing out bland new material. Though it wasn’t all so bad, these five albums made 2012 a little easier on the ears. Continue reading
Orbital – Orbital 2
Release Date: 3rd August 1993
Genre: Ambient Techno
Internal
A constant use of repetition can often be annoying, but also incredibly catchy. Orbital 2 would be the latter, as each track gains momentum through repetition, but slight tweaks keep it from being too much. Continue reading
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
Release Date: 1st November 1988
Genre: Shoegazing
Sony Music
The wall of sound blurs on like a raging blizzard. Many venture close, but few make it through. But those who do find something tender and become lost within the wall. Isn’t anything? Continue reading
Sonic Youth – Goo
Release Date: 26th June 1990
Genre: Alternative Rock
DGC
After Daydream Nation my brain has turned to goo. Goo which shakes and quivers to the punk rock beat of Sonic Youth. It’s better this way. Continue reading
Purity Ring brought glow up lanterns and a strange balloon music making drum machine. Continue reading
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
Release Date: 12th November 2012
Genre: Alternative Metal
Reprise
Koi No Yokan is a title which suggests the members of Deftones have suddenly become weaboos (someone obsessed with Japanese culture to the point that you want to bash their face into a lamp post), but the term soon makes sense. Love at first sight wouldn’t make such a great album title, Koi No Yokan has a delicate feeling which just can’t be captured through literal translation. Continue reading
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
Release Date: 22nd July 2008
Genre: Industrial
People say the best things in life are free. But Lucky Charms cereal isn’t free free. Nor is a room with a view. But The Slip is free. It’s hit and miss on if the best things are free. Hit and miss. Unless you’re a thief, then it’s free for all! Continue reading
Soundgarden – King Animal
Release Date: 12th November 2012
Genre: Grunge
Vertigo
Soundgarden have been away for sixteen years, splitting to form a bunch of bands and solo projects I’ve largely ignored. It’s all about the grunge fuelled Soundgarden for me, Black Hole Sun etched in my mind. Now they’re back and they want to remind us that they’ve been away too long by making a song about it. We know, guys! Continue reading
Green Day – ¡Dos!
Release Date: 12th November 2012
Genre: Pop Punk
Reprise
After ¡Uno! provided a selection of forgettable pop punk fluff, my anticipation for ¡Dos! dies on its arse. They can strum a pretty tune which sounds like the past, but can they push out a sound which makes them stand strong in the present? ¡Dos! gives it a go as the band plunges into the night. Continue reading
