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List what you dug this year.

Opeth - Heritage

Pentagram - Last Rites

Seidr - For Winter Fire

Mastodon - The Hunter

Yob - Atma

Gates of Slumber - the Wretch

Argus - Boldly stride the doomed

Russian Circles - Empros

Deafheaven - Roads to Judah

Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

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Was gonna make a post about this a few weeks from now when we rolled into December, but hey - these kind of threads are too hard to resist!

Moon Duo: Mazes (Sacred Bones)

Ty Segall: Goodbye Bread (Drag City) (this was a grower, but so good)

Disappears: Guider (Kranky)

Xander Harris: Urban Gothic (Not Not Fun)

Hunx and His Punx: Too Young To Be In Love (Hardly Art)

Wooden Shjips: West (Thrill Jockey)

People's Temple: Sons of Stone (Hozac)

Human Eye: They Came From The Sky (Sacred Bones)

Sonic Youth: Simon Werner A Disparu (SYR)

La Sera: S/T (Hardly Art)

Boris: Attention Please (Sargent House)

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destroyer - kaputt

toro y moi - underneath the pine

bon iver - bon iver

cloud nothings - cloud nothings

craft spells - idle labor

dom - family of love

kevin devine - between the concrete and clouds

modern skirts - gramahawk

yuck - yuck

wu lyf - go tell fire to the mountains

the weeknd - house of balloons / thursday

washed out - high times

everything by curren$y

and of course...

WATCH THE THRONE

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albums of 2011 that didnt come close to matching their predecessors:

the antlers - burst apart

pains of being pure - belong

male bonding - endless now

set your goals - burning at both ends

and ive only given it one listen, but im sure FYS is gonna fit in here too.

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Dude Jams - How To Abuse Everything

The Underground Railroad To Candyland - Knows Your Sins

Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off

Screeching Weasel - First World Manifesto

Swingin Utters - Here, Under Protest

Brick Mower had a really good album too plus I just got the upcoming album from The Manix and it's pretty damn impressive.

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I didn't love a lot this year, unfortunately. I do think these albums were pretty great:

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Crash of Rhinos - Distal

Football, Etc. - The Draft

Owen- Ghost Town

Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - S/T

Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions etc...

David Bazan - Strange Negotiations

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Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

Bjork - Biophilia

Chelsea Wolfe - Ἀποκάλυψις

Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats - Bloodlust

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Acients

Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

Ash Borer - S/T

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

Thou - To The Chaos Wizard Youth

Thou - The Archer And The Owle

J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why

Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground - Introducing...

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania and Carrion Crawler/ The Dream

Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

Austra - Feel It Break

Grails - Deep Politics

Pygmy Lush - Old Friends

La Dispute - Wildlife

All four Boris releases that came out this year

Destroyer - Kaputt

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blue

Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs Evil

Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1

Bright Eyes - The Peoples Key

Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii

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griever-inferior

owen-ghost town

brain fever-self titled

withdrawal-faith flesh and blood

deafhaven-roads to judah

pulling teeth-funnerary

rot in hell-as pearls before swine

tim hecker-rave death, 1972

clarrisa explains it all-IDK3D EP(i think this came out this year?)

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LP:

Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After

Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride

Horrible Crowes - Elsie

Touché Amoré - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch The Throne

Paper Diamond - Levitate

EP:

Daytrader - Last Days of Rome

STS9 - When The Dust Settles

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Touché Amoré - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

Bon Iver - S/T

Watch The Throne

Thrice - Major/Minor

honorable mentions:

Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin

Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

O Pioneers / Andrew Jackson Jihad split

Wilco - The Whole Love

Mariachi El Bronx - II

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Please consider these Underground Communique Releases for your lists:

Capital's 'Givers/Takers' LP

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/givers-takers

Cutman's 'Universal Laws' LP

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/universal-laws

Vacation Bible School's 'Ruined the Scene' LP

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/ruined-the-scene

O Pioneers / Andrew Jackson Jihad split cassette (or vinyl)

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/split-cassette

and these re-issues I've put out this year(or will have out by the end of the year):

the Methadones 'Not Economically Viable' LP

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/not-economically-viable

the Outsiders 'Untitled' EP

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/the-outsiders

Roundhouse 'the Complete Discography' CD

(pre-the Killing Tree, the Killer, Synnecrosis, Enforsaken)

http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/complete-discography

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Balance and Composure - Separation

Fireworks - Gospel

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Latin For Truth - Youth Crew Blues

Sainthood Reps - Monoculture

Polar Bear Club - Clash, Battle, Guilt, Pride

Transit - Listen & Forgive

I am the Avalanche - Avalanche United

EP

Braid - Closer to Closed

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here's a rough list of my fav's that i'll whittle down in the coming weeks

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die...

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Graveyard - Hinisigen Blues

Pygmy Lush - Old Friends

Cave In - White Silence

Weedeater - Jason the Dragon

Battles - Gloss Drop

Opeth - Heritage

Young Widows - In and out...

Za! - Megaflow

The Rapture - In the Grace of your Love

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk

Ahluechatistas - Location, Location

Portugal the Man - In the Mountains in the Cloud

Capsule - No Ghost

Torche - Songs For Singles

Ilsa/Hooded Menace Split

Mastodon - The Hunter

Saviours - Death’s Procession

Premonition 13 - s/t

AnB/Despise You Split

Ed Gein - Bad Luck

Gridlink - Orphan

Electro Quarterstaff - Aykroyd

Dub Trio - IV

East of the Wall - The Apologist

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So much good stuff this year

Currently my top 10 in order but it might change. #1 and #2 are set tho. Nothing will top those for me this year or even come close to them.

Balance & Composure - Separation

Touche Amore - Parting the Sea...

Blink 182 - Neighborhoods

La Dispute - Wildlife

Seahaven - Winter Forever

The Horrible Crowes - Elsie

The Decemberists - The King is Dead

Defeater - Empty Days Sleepless Nights

Banner Pilot - Heart Beats Pacific

Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride

Also loved these

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man

Bad Meets Evil - Hell: The Sequel

Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here

Bayside - Killing Time

Dead to Me - Moscow Penny Ante

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

JayZ/Kanye - Watch the Throne

The Wonder Years - Suburbia Ive Given You All...

Thrice - Major/Minor

Thursday - No Devolucion

Tyler the Creator - Goblin

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