Playlist for January 2012

These are all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in the month of January 2012. At the end are my notes and a list of the live performances I saw as well.

1/3/12

Cannibal Corpse – “Tomb of the Mutilated”

1/4/12

Coalesce – “Ox”

1/5/12

Generifus – “Solstice Songs”

1/7/12

Mrs. Magician – “There Is No God” EP

Weed Diamond – “Early Thingz + Extras” CD-R

1/8/12

Sugarhill Gang – “The Best Of The Sugarhill Gang: Rapper’s Delight”

1/9/12

Anomie – “Discography” CD

1/10/12

Jay-Z and Kanye West – “Watch the Throne” Deluxe Edition

1/11/12

The Panic Division – “Sleepwalker” EP

Evidence – “The Layover” EP

Real Estate – “Days”

Andrew Bird – “Noble Beast”

1/12/12

Murphy’s Law – S/T

TRMRS – “Sea Things”

My Morning Jacket – “Circuital”

Death Grips – “Exmilitary” mixtape

Immaculate Machine – “Transporter”

Testament – “The Gathering”

1/13/12

SBTRKT – S/T

Miike Snow – S/T

Black Strobe – “Burn Your Own Church”

Death Angel – “Relentless Retribution”

Wavves – “Life Sux” EP

Amon Tobin – “Isam”

The High Court – “Puppet Strings”

Anthrax – “The Sound of White Noise”

Frank Turner – “England Keep My Bones”

Ruiner – “Prepare to Be Let Down”
The Toasters – “Ska Killers”

Mates Of State – “Mountaintops”

Deception Of A Ghost – “Speak Up, You’re Not Alone” EP

Wolves In The Throne Room – “Celestial Lineage”

1/14/12

OFF! – “The First 4 EPs”

10,000 Maniacs – “Blind Man’s Zoo”

Wilco – “The Whole Love”

Iceage – “New Brigade”

1/15/12

Emperor – “Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise”
Emperor X – “The Blythe Archives Vol. 11” EP

Bomb The Music Indutry! – “Vacation”

1/16/12

Islands – “Return to the Sea”

Larkin Grimm – “Parplar”

Junior Battles – “Idle Ages”

1/17/12

Carpathian – “Isolation”

Old Time Relijun – “Witchcraft Rebellion”

Obits – “Moody, Standard, and Poor”

Styx – S/T

1/18/12

Good Grief – “Record Highs”

The Wonder Years – “Suburbia, I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing”

The Fucking Champs – “III”

Lifeforms – “Synthetic” EP

Cloud Nothings – S/T

The Tragically Hip – “Fully Completely”

Molotov Solution – “Insurrection”
Polar Bear Club – “Clash Battle Guilt Pride”

Groundswell – “Wave of Popular Feeling”

ACxDC – “He Had It Coming” EP

1/19/12

Lemuria – “Pebble”

Tim Reynolds – “See Into Your Soul”
Sea Of Skies – “Demos” CD

Bridge And Tunnel – “Rebuilding Year”

Jesus Jones – “Doubt”

Doomtree – “No Kings”

Textures – “Dualism”

1/20/12

The Stooges – S/T

The Surf Rats – “Trouble”

Trap Them – “Darker Handcraft”

Le Tigre – “This Island”

Howlin’ Rain – S/T

1/23/12

Fugazi – “Repeater”

1/24/12

East Of The Wall – “The Apologist”

Jacques Brel – “Olympia ‘64”

Just Like Vinyl – S/T

1/25/12

Defeater – “Empty Days and Sleepless Nights”

The xx – “XX”

Decoder – S/T

V/A – “Scream 2” Motion Picture Soundtrack

Light Bearer – “Lapsus”

1/26/12

Pestilence – “Testimony of the Ancients”

A Lot Like Birds – “Conversation Piece”

Fallujah – “Leper Colony” EP

The Bug – “Pressure”

1/27/12

Dance Gavin Dance – “Downtown Battle Massacre II”

YOB – “Atma”

NOTES:

• -         I <3 Cannibal Corpse
• -          Suagrhill Gang songs are way too long
• -          I totally forgot about Anomie
• -          The Jay-Z/Kanye album is better than I expected, but that’s not saying much
• -          Real Estate is one of my favorite new bands, very good album
• -          I didn’t realize that Murphy’s Law was such a joke band
• -          The new MMJ album isn’t nearly as good as their past stuff
• -          Amon Tobin makes some bizarre music but its goddamn cool
• -          Deception Of A Ghost is about as generic as their name implies
• -          I thought Bomb The Music Industry was supposed to be a ska band
• -          I never thought I’d be saying this, but that Styx album was pretty dope
• -          The Fucking Champs don’t sound at all like what I thought they would. Same for Lemuria.
• -          Cloud Nothings deserve the hype
• -          A few songs into the Groundswell album I started to think, “Why does this suck so bad?” so I looked them up and it turns out they went on to become Three Days Grace. That explains a lot.
• -          The Jesus Jones album I listened to is every bit as bad as any rational music listener would expect it to be, and I don’t know what I was thinking listening to it.
• -          I get it, but I find Le Tigre to be pretty annoying most of the time
• -          That was the first time I’d listened to a Fugazi album for far too long
• -          Why the guy from Fall Of Troy decided to break up Fall Of Troy and start a band with a different name but that still sounds exactly like Fall Of Troy, I don’t understand.

I also saw Ethan Harvey, The Hellraisers, Xpulsion, The Coltranes, Ten Thousand Leagues, Griever, and Wolves In The Throne Room perform live.