Lost In Tangent

I wasn’t going to do this post but I ended up not being able to sleep last night and decided “what the hell?”. I purposely did the list in no particular order as I feel that it isn’t realistic to quantify a specific placement of each album and have it mean anything. What exactly does the difference between #18 and #19 really look like? I spent many years writing for magazines and can attest to the fact that these lists are just subjective babble.

The majority of these albums are post-rock, electronic and instrumental artists. There are a few metal, indie, folk and post-hardcore albums as well. I did a TON of traveling this year and this is the collection that kept me sane around the world. If you care for a more “formal” list, you can check out my other site, The Silent Ballet, in a few weeks.

1. Helios - “Ceasura” (Link)
2. Lights Out Asia - “Eyes Like Brontide” (Link)
3. Shearwater - “Rook” (Link)
4. No.9 - “Usual Revolution And Nine” (Link)
5. Sumner McKane - “What A Great Place To Be” (Link)
6. Suffocate For Fuck Sake - “Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Front Page Of The Newspaper. There’s A War Going On And I’m Marching In Heavy Boots” (Link)
7. Bersarin Quartett - “Bersarin Quartett” (Link)
8. This Town Needs Guns - “Animals” (Link)
9. Jóhann Jóhannsson - “Fordlandia” (Link)
10. Cult Of Luna - “Eternal Kingdom” (Link)
11. This Is Your Captain Speaking - “Eternal Return” (Link)
12. Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - “Embers” (Link)
13. Balmorhea - “River Arms” (Link)
14. Strangers Die Every Day - “Aperture For Departure” (Link)
15. Takahiro Kido - “Fleursy Music” (Link)
16. M83 - “Saturdays = Youth” (Link)
17. Mouth Of The Architect - “Quietly” (Link)
18. Lakes Of Russia - “Stars Decorate The Fire” (Link)
19. Earth - “The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull” (Link)
20. Fuck Buttons - “Street Horrrsing” (Link)
21. The Drift - “Memory Drawings” (Link)
22. Beneva Vs. Clark Nova - “Sombunall” (Link)
23. Mooncake - “Langrange Points” (Link)
24. We’re From Japan! - “Now Breath” (Link)
25. The Evpatoria Report - “Maar” (Link)
26. Arms & Sleepers - “Black Paris 86″ (Link)
27. d_rradio - “d_rradio” (Link)
28. Gregor Samsa - “Rest” (Link)
29. Russian Circles - “Station” (Link)
30. Ef - “I Am Responsible” (Link)
31. Pg.Lost - “It’s Not Me, It’s You!” (Link)
32. Neil On Impression - “L’oceano Delle Onde Che Restano Onde Per Sempre” (Link)
33. He Can Jog - “Middlemarch” (Link)
34. The Seven Mile Journey - “The Metamorphosis Project” (Link)
35. Goodnight, Sleep Well - “The Recovery” (Link)
36. Kyte - “Kyte” (Link)
37. Unwed Sailor - “Little Wars” (Link)
38. Daturah - “Reverie” (Link)
39. Port Blue - “The Albatross” (Link)
40. My Education - “Bad Vibrations” (Link)
41. Build - “Build” (Link)
42. God Is An Astronaut - “God Is An Astronaut” (Link)
43. MGMT - “Oracular Spectacular” (Link)
44. Lindstrøm - “Where You Go I Go Too” (Link)
45. September Malevolence - “After This Darkness, There’s A Next” (Link)
46. The Absent Sound - “Gathering Of The Clan Mothers” (Link)
47. The Calm Blue Sea - “The Calm Blue Sea” (Link)
48. Beast, Please Be Still! - “Beast, Please Be Still!” (Link)
49. Robin Guthrie - “3:19 Bande Originale du Film” (Link)
50. Peter Broderick - “Float” (Link)