Best of 2010 - 2016

to get fully immersed into the space of sound i don't need a special setting - only a quiet room, some soft cushions and my mp3-player. i just close my eyes and pass over into a different world, a different perception of reality. merely existing as a boundless wave of fleeting emotions, a bodiless entity of pure vibration, a timeless brother of silence itself, being given to the present moment, for a few bars just formless and blissful consciousness.

best of 2016.
every good album of this year that crossed my paths.
recommended.
all of them.

1 Mile North - Awakened By Decay
52 Commercial Road - Remote Connection
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky Music For An Infinite Universe
After All - Waves Of Annihilation
Aes Dana feat. MikTek - The Unexpected Hours
Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass
Alcest - Kodama
All India Radio - The Slow Light
Amiina - Fantomas
ASC - No Stars Without Darkness
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Iris
Baltic Fleet - The Dear One
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
Battle Trance - Blade Of Love
Black Mountain - IV
Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule
Blueneck - The Outpost
Bree Tranter - Another Night On Earth
Brownout - Presents Brown Sabbath Vol. II
Build And Release - Build And Release
Camelion - Yksniv Arts
Captives Of The Void - Captives Of The Void
Castle - Welcome to the Graveyard
Christopher Tignor - Along a Vanishing Plane
Chronos - Pallid Reflection
Cicada - Farewell
Circa: - Valley of the Windmill
Crying - Beyond The Fleeting Gales
Cult Of Luna and Julie Christmas - Mariner
Dark Suns - Everchild
David Arkenstone - Beneath A Darkening Sky
David Arkenstone - Songs From The Aqua Lounge
David Arkenstone - The Fairy Garden
David Bowie - Blackstar
Death Angel - The Evil Divide
Denner/Shermann - Masters Of Evil
Dewa Budjana - Zentuary
Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control
Earth Ascending - Sprouts
El Topo - Pigiama Psicoattivo
Eluvium - False Readings On
Eluvium - Curious Things
Emma Pollock - In Search Of Harperfield
Ereb Altor - Blot Ilt Taut
EUS - Luminar
Eye - Vision and Ageless Light
Fire Garden - Far And Near
Flotsam and Jetsam - Flotsam and Jetsam
Fogh Depot - Turmalinturm
Frightened Rabbit - Painting Of A Panic Attack
FVNERALS - Wounds
Get Well Soon - Love
Gojira - Magma
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead!
If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World
Incognito - In Search Of Better Days
InnerWish - Innerwish
Jah Wobble And The Invaders Of The Heart - Everything Is No Thing
Jambinai - A Heritage
John Paul White - Beulah
Jonathan Brinkley - Unguarded Heart
Junk Son - Beginning, Ending, Pretending
Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
Kjartan Sveinsson - Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
Lemon Sky - Dos
Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
Lost In Kiev - Nuit Noire
M Craft - Blood Moon
Mamiffer - The World Unseen
Marconi Union - Ghost Stations
Marillion - Fear
Message To Bears - Carved From Tides
Meteor - Parallel Lives
Miss Lava - Sonic Debris
Mogwai - Atomic
Monarch - Two Isles
Monica Heldal - The One In The Sun
Moon Men - Moon Men
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
Myrkur - Mausoleum
Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are
Nils Petter Molvaer - Buoyancy
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne
O'Brother - Endless Light
Offthesky - Silent Went The Sea
Olafur Arnalds - Island Songs
Perpetual Escape - Into My Dreams
Pg.lost - Versus
Poverty's No Crime - Spiral of Fear
Pray For Sound - Everything Is Beautiful
Quilt - Plaza
Radical Face - The Family Tree, The Leaves
Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life
Riflebirds - World Feels Wide
River Whyless - We All The Light
RPWL - Plays Pink Floyd's 'The Man and the Journey'
Ryan Teague - Site Specific
Sand Reckoner - Haunter
Sayama - Yoga Meditations
Seas Of Years - The Ever Shifting Fields
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths
Soft Kill - Choke
Soliloquium - An Empty Frame
Spectrum Vision - Flashbacks
Suede - Night Thoughts
Suicidal Angels - Division Of Blood
Sylvaine - Wistful
Syndrome - Forever and A Day
Tales Of Murder and Dust - The Flow In Between
The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum
The Black Fall - The Time Traveler
The Gourishankar - The World Unreal
The Mute Gods - Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude Of A Dream
The Olympians - The Olympians
The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
The Vision Bleak - The Unknown
The Wonder Stuff - 30 Goes Around The Sun
They Seem Like Owls - Strangers
Throes of Dawn - Our Voices Shall Remain
Tilt - Hinterland
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Title Tracks - Long Dream
Tor - Blue Book
Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Various Artists - Back In Blue, A Blues Tribute To AC/DC
Various Artists - Day Of The Dead
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Voyag3r - Are You Synthetic?
Warpaint - Heads Up
Warfect - Scavengers
Witchwood - Handful Of Stars
Woodkid - Desierto
Wyrd - Death Of The Sun
Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
Yndi Halda - Under Summer
Yuck - Stranger Things
Zig Zags - Running Out of Red

great re-releases:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung [remixed and mastered by Steven Wilson]
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes [remastered by Steven Wilson]
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans [remixed by Steven Wilson]

a small selection of disappointments & failures 2016
(some of those albums are effectively killed by their LOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUD mastering. others are just uninspired or plain mediocre efforts from artists whom i like and who've done better things in the past. or all of the above.)

All India Radio - The Haunted World
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
Anthrax - For All Kings
Archive - The False Foundation
Autolux - Pussy's Dead
Band of Skulls - By Default
BirdPen - O' Mighty Vision
Bossk - Audio Noir
Brian Eno - The Ship
Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
Haken - Affinity
Hammock - Everything and Nothing
Headspace - All That You Fear Is Gone
Holy Fuck - Congrats
Hooverphonic - In Wonderland
Immanu El - Hibernation
Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 25
Julianna Barwick - Will
Kula Shaker - K 2.0
Lost Society - Braindead
Mars Red Sky - Apex III Praise For The Burning Soul
Megadeth - Dystopia
Memoryhouse - Soft Hate
Mint Julep - Broken Devotion
Monkey3 - Astra Symmetry
New Model Army - Winter
Opeth - Sorceress
Overhead, The Albatross - Learning To Grow
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Redemption - The Art Of Loss
Russian Circles - Guidance
Slowly Rolling Camera - All Things
Submotion Orchestra - Colour Theory
Takahiro Kido - The New World
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
The Algorithm - Brute Force
The Myrrors - Entranced Earth
Tripswitch - Vagabond
True Widow - Avvolgere
Tycho - Epoch
Ty Segal - Emotional Mugger
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Vangelis - Rosetta
Vicious Rumors - Concussion Protocol
Wilco - Schmilco
Wintersleep - The Great Detachment
Witchcraft - Nucleus

best of 2015.
every good album of this year that crossed my paths.
recommended.
all of them.

A Swarm Of The Sun - The Rifts
Abigail's Ghost - Black Plastic Sun
Active Child - Mercy
Afternoons In Stereo - Retrospective
Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Alpha Wave Movement - Earthen
Ampacity - Superluminal
Amplifier - Residue
Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Anoice - Into The Shadows
Arcane - Known / Learned
Archive - Restriction
Atmospheres - The Departure
Aun - Fiat Lux
Bang Gang - The Wolves Are Whispering
Beirut - No No No
Bersarin Quartett - III
Beware Of Safety - Mabon
Big Sky Conspiracy - Stone Cold Monsters
Bitter End - Illusions Of Dominance
Black Oath - To Below and Beyond
Breaking Orbit - Transcension
Bruce Soord - Bruce Soord
Calexico - Edge Of The Sun
Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo
Church - Tears Of God
Creepoid - Cemetery Highrise Slum
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Dewa Budjana - Hasta Karma
E-Mantra - Raining Lights
Earthside - A Dream in Static
Entheogenic - A Singularity Encoded
Erothyme - Sound in the Living Current
Esmerine - Lost Voices
Flies Are Spies From Hell - Underdog Underfoot
Failure - The Heart Is A Monster
Fogh Depot - Fogh Depot
From The Mouth Of The Sun - Into The Well
Galadriel - Lost In The Ryhope Wood (vinyl rip)
Gavin Harrison - Cheating the Polygraph
God Is An Astronaut - Helios Erebus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash
Guapo - Obscure Knowledge
Guster - Evermotion
Helvetia - Dromomania
Ibeyi - Ibeyi
Irfan - The Eternal Return
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia
Jill Andrews - The War Inside
Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Julia Kent - Asperities
JT Bruce - Vandal Of Fortune
Junkie XL - Mad Max Fury Road
Kaki King - The Neck is a Bridge to the Body
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kauan - Sorni Nai
Korgull The Exterminator - Reborn From The Ashes
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Lion Shepherd - Hiraeth
Lowercase Noises - James
Marika Hackman - We Slept At Last
Michal Menert - Space Jazz
Mike Lepond's Silent Assasins
Mo' Horizons - The Banana Remixes
Mount Eerie - Sauna
Myrkur - M
Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment
Nordic Giants - A Séance Of Dark Delusions
Numina and Zero Ohms - Broken Stars Through Brilliant Clouds
Odiolab - Medieval
offthesky - Light Loss
offthesky - The Serpent Phase
offthesky and Pleq - A Thousand Fields
Opeth - Deliverance & Damnation
Other Lives - Rituals
Ozric Tentacles - Technicians of the Sacred
Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots
Pauw - Macrocosm Microcosm
Pelican - Arktika
Pinnacles - Convolve & Reflect
Port St. Willow - Syncope
Professor Kliq - The Scientific Method, Vol. III
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Queensryche - Condition Human
Rama - Rama
Rachel Grimes - The Clearing
Radare - Im Argen
Rhian Sheehan - Live At The Wellington Opera House
Rivulets - I Remember Everything
Royal Headache - High
RPWL - Plays Pink Floyd
Seapony - A Vision
Second Moon Of Winter - One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
Slayer - Repentless (vinyl rip)
Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow
Snow Ghosts - A Wrecking
Soft Kill - Heresy
Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
Spurv - Skarntyde
Steve Von Till - A Life Unto Itself
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Stone Sea - Stages
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
Team Sleep - Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4
Teen Daze - Morning World
The Leisure Society - The Fine Art Of Hanging On
The Myrrors - Arena Negra
The Radiation Flowers - The Radiation Flowers
The Souljazz Orchestra - Resistance
The Telescopes - Splashdown
Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
Triptides - Azur
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
Vennart - The Demon Joke
Verticals - Grace Of Existence
Vespero - Fitful Slumber Until 5 A.M.
Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising
We Lost The Sea - Departure Songs
Wilco - Star Wars

disappointments & failures 2015
(some of those albums are effectively killed by their LOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUD mastering. others are just uninspired or plain mediocre efforts from artists whom i like and who've done better things in the past. or all of the above.)

Andrew Bird - Echolocations Canyon
Antimatter - The Judas Table
Arena - The Unquiet Sky
Baroness - Purple
Björk - Vulnicura
Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror
Caspian - Dust & Disquiet
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Christian Scott - Stretch Music
Christina Vantzou - No. 3
Danzig - Skeletons
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi
Def Leppard - Def Leppard
Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
Editors - In Dream
Emancipator - Seven Seas
Ensiferum - One Man Army
Enya - Dark Sky Island
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Final Days Society - Icebreaker
Fuzz - II
Gazpacho - Molok
Ghost - Meliora
Great Northern - Tremors
Have A Nice Life - Anno Domini Collected Demos 2006-2014
Health - Death Magic
Hearts Of Black Science - Signal
Heather Nova - The Way It Feels
Helios - Yume
Holy Terror - Guardians Of The Netherworld A Tribute To Keith Deen
Inventions - Maze Of Woods
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
John Lemke - Nomad Frequencies
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Desarroi
Lemolo - Red Right Return
Low - Ones and Sixes
Maserati - Rehumanizer
Max Richter - From Sleep
Melechesh - Enki
Mew - Plus Minus
Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
New Order - Music Complete
offthesky - The Soft Parallel
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Loon
Peter Broderick - Colours Of The Night
Petrels - Flailing Tomb
Powermad - Infinite
Professor Kliq - 28 Days With The OP-1
Re-Animator - Horns Up
Robert Rich - Filaments
Rothko - Severed Tense
Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
Sacrilege - Ashes To Ashes
Slayer - Repentless
Steak Number Eight - Kosmokoma
Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime
Sunn O))) - Kannon
Symphony X - Underworld
Tame Impala - Currents
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - Yield To Despair
The American Dollar - Across the Oceans
The Black Ryder - The Door Behind The Door
The White Birch - The Weight Of Spring
Title Fight - Hyperview
Toundra - IV
Ty Segall - Ty Rex
Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night Of Your Ascension

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best of 2014.
every good album of this year that crossed my paths.
recommended.
all of them.

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atmos
All India Radio - Fall Remixes
alt-J - This Is All Yours
Amethystium - Transience
Amplifier - Mystoria
Andrew Bird - Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
Anoice - From The Studio
Anouar Brahem - Souvenance
Aphex Twin - Syro
Archive - Axiom
Astralia - Atlas
Astronauts - Hollow Ponds
Audrey Fall - Mitau
Austrian Death Machine - Triple Brutal
Band of Skulls - Himalayan
Barzin - To Live Alone In That Long Summer
Beck - Morning Phase
Bear the Mammoth - Yamadori
Beware of Safety - Lotusville
BirdPen - In The Company Of Imaginary Friends
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Blueneck - King Nine
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Piano Nights
Birds Of Passage - This Kindly Slumber
Black Submarine - New Shores
Broken Bells - After The Disco
Brownout - Presents Brown Sabbath
Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
Christina Vantzou - No.2
Ciempiés - Óptimo Máximo
Cotidal - Lunar Day
Crippled Black Phoenix - White Light Generator
Dakota Suite and Quentin Sirjacq - There Is Calm To Be Done
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Embrace - Embrace
Entheogenic - Enthymesis
Erothyme - Circadia
Esben and the Witch - A New Nature
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
Falloch - This Island, Our Funeral
Flood of Red - Throw
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace (2014)
Foxes in Fiction - Ontario Gothic
Gemma Ray - Milk for Your Motors
Grouper - Ruins
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Hugo Kant - The Point Of No Return
Her Name Is Calla - Navigator
Hexperos - Lost In The Great Sea
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
Hundreds - Aftermath
Husky - Ruckers Hill
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Dust
Imploding Stars - Young Route
Jakob - Sines
Jouis - Dojo
Kauan - Kuu
Kaya Project - Firedance
Kaya Project - The Ambient Mixes
Kerretta - Pirohia
Lewis & Clarke - Triumvirate
Les Big Byrd - They Worshipped Cats
Lisa Gerrard - Twilight Kingdom
London Grammar - If You Wait
Labirinto - Masao
Lunatic Soul - Walking on a Flashlight Beam
Lowercase Noises - This Is For Our Sins
Mamiffer - Statu Nascendi
Mazes - Wooden Aquarium
Messenger - Illusory Blues
Moaning Cities - Pathways through the Sail
Miasm - The Dark Roads
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Monuments - The Amanuensis
Moonlit Sailor - We Come From Exploding Stars
Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun
Musee Mecanique - From Shores of Sleep
NFD - Waking The Dead
Nighthawks - Rio Bravo
Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line
Olafur Arnalds - Gimme Shelter
Oysterband - Diamonds on the Water
Opeth - Pale Communion
Ormonde - Cartographer Explorer
Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains
Pinnacles - Automaton
Poppy Ackroyd - Feathers
Quantum Fantay - Terragaia
Quilt - Held in Splendor
Raised By Swans - Oxnadalur
Real Estate - Atlas
Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
Rumour Cubes - Appearances Of Collections
Savage Messiah - The Fateful Dark
Searchlights - Searchlights
Show Me A Dinosaur - Dust
Siena Root - Pioneers
Skalpel - Transit
Sleeping Bear - Sleeping Bear
Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
Slowly Rolling Camera - Slowly Rolling Camera
Solstafir - Otta
Slowness - How to Keep from Falling off a Mountain
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Submotion Orchestra - Alium
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Talons - New Topographics
The Algorithm - Octopus 4
The Clouds Are Ghosts - Fractures
The Future Sound Of London - Environment Five
The Moon And The Nightspirit - Holdrejtek
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
The Primitives - Spin-O-Rama
The Samuel Jackson Five - Seasons In The Hum
The Souljazz Orchestra - Inner Fire
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Tunturia - Halls Of Sky
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Wang Wen - Eight Horses
Warbringer - IV Empires Collapse
Warpaint - Warpaint
Watter - This World
Yellow Ostrich - Cosmos
Yuki Murata - Gift

disappointments & failures 2014
(some of those albums are effectively killed by their LOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUD mastering. others are just uninspired or plain mediocre efforts from artists whom i like and who've done better things in the past. or all of the above.)

Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere
Alcest - Shelter
Anathema - Distant Satellites
Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Engineers - Always Returning
Karma To Burn - Arch Stanton
Kasabian - 48:13
Long Distance Calling - Nighthawk
Mars Red Sky - Stranded in Arcadia
New Model Army - Between Wine And Blood
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Pausal - Along the Mantic Spring
Renaissance - Symphony of Light
RPWL - Wanted
Ryan Teague - Block Boundaries
Sleepmakeswaves - Love of Cartography
Temples - Sun Structures
Tesla - Simplicity
The Antlers - Familiars
The Pineapple Thief - Magnolia
The Tea Party - The Ocean At The End
The Vines - Wicked Nature
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
This Will Destroy You - Another Language
Threshold - For the Journey
Upcdownc - Black Sea
Veni Domine - Light

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at first, the honorable mentions of 2013.
every good album of this year that crossed my paths.
highly recommended.
all of them.

Agnes Obel - Aventine
Amiina - The Lighthouse Project
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Braveyoung - Will The Dust Praise You
Calexico - Algiers
Capsula - Solar Secrets
Caspian - Hymn For The Greatest Generation
Cedar Falls - Elsa
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Claro De Luna - La Voz Quebrada
Clem Leek - Rest
Collapse - The Fall
Cult Of Luna - Vertikal I & II
Deadhorse - MMXIII Demo
Dorena - Nuet
EF - Ceremonies
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Emmalee Crane - Crowd of Reeds
Emancipator - Dusk To Dawn
Esmerine - Dalmak
Exivious - Liminal
Forest Swords - Engravings
Fuzz - Fuzz
Gemma Ray - Down Baby Down
God Is An Astronaut - Origins
Hammock - Oblivion Hymns
Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities
Karnivool - Asymmetry
Kaya Project - The Elixir Remixes
Love Is Colder Than Death - Tempest
Lowercase Noises - Blake
Marillion - Radiation 2013
Message to Bears - Maps
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Mooncake - Zaris
Movimientos Invisibles del Sol
múm - Smilewound
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get ...
New Keepers Of The Water Towers - Cosmic Child
New Order - Lost Sirens
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Oak - Lighthouse
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Pelican - Forever Becoming
Petrels - Onkalo
Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
Rena Jones - Echoes
R.Roo - Hydref
Rudi Arapahoe - Double Bind
Russian Circles - Memorial
Sedulity - The Valley of Dying Stars
Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
Stellardrone - Light Years
Steven Price - Gravity
Steven Wilson - Drive Home
Stray Theories - even though we sleep
The Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
The Eden House - Half Life
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
The Paper Kites - States
True Widow - Circumambulation
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Warfect - Exoneration Denied
Way Of Abyss - No Return
Witxes - A Fabric of Beliefs
Woodkid - The Golden Age
Woodworkings - Day Breaks The Morning Shapes We Speak
Xenia Kriisin - Hymn
Year Of No Light - Vampyr
Yuck - Glow and Behold

disappointments 2013
(some of those albums are effectively killed by their LOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUD mastering. others are just uninspired and mediocre. or both.)

65daysofstatic - Wild Light
A Place To Bury Strangers - Loud And Out Of Control
Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Blackfield IV
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At The Feast
Black Sabbath - 13
Darkside - Psychic
Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Evile - Skull
Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside
Midlake - Antiphon
New Model Army - Between Dog and Wolf
Onslaught - VI
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Queensryche (whatsoever by whomsoever)
Riverside - Shrine Of The New Generation Slaves
Robert Rich - Morphology
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Submotion Orchestra - 1968
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - Failed By Man And Machine
The Low Frequency In Stereo - Pop Obskura
The Red Paintings - The Revolution Is Never Coming
Upcdownc - Black Sea
Warlord - The Holy Empire

and finally, the top 28 releases of 2013. the ones that got the most playing time and had the deepest and most lingering impact on me.

52 Commercial Road - Communion
Aesthesys - Ascendere
Afternoons In Stereo - 5
Amplifier - Echo Street
Au4 - ...And Down Goes The Sky
Black Willows - Haze
Barn Owl - V
Civil Protection - Stolen Fire
Consciousness Removal Project - Tacit
Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
Disparition - Madoc
Goldfrapp - Tales Of Us
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 4, 5 & 6
Julia Kent - Character
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Kauan - Pirut
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter
Palms - Palms
Qualia - Ecliptic
Radical Face - The Family Tree, The Branches
Rhian Sheehan - Stories From Elsewhere
Steak Number Eight - The Hutch
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Testament - Dark Roots Of Thrash
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Arc
Vaura - The Missing
Zero Absolu - Küsse aus Berlin

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firstly, the honorable mentions of 2012.
good albums. highly recommended. all of them.

Afarone - Lucen
Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme
All India Radio - Red Shadow Landing
Anglagard - Viljars ôga
Anoice - The Black Rain
Artesia - Wanderings
Astra - The Black Chord
Baulta - That's My House You're Living In
Bersarin Quartett - II
Birdpen - Global Lows
Black Elk - Sparks
Black Mountain - Year Zero
Brownout - Oozy
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
ef - Delusions Of Grandeur
Efterklang - Piramida
Frames - In Via
Girl Talk - All Day
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Hammock - Departure Songs
Helios - Moitey
Helvetia - Nothing In Rambling
Incognito - Surreal
Kaki King - Glow
Leech - If We Get There One Day, Would You Please Open the Gates
Lemolo - The Kaleidoscope
Lost In Kiev - Motions
Marché La Void - The Origin of Non-Entity
Max Richter - The Four Seasons
Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect
Michael Stearns - Samsara
Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Mumford And Sons - Babel
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Petrels - Haeligewielle
Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Port St. Willow - Holiday
Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling, David Singleton - The Wine Of Silence
Royal Thunder - CVI
Rumour Cubes - The Narrow State
Shaolin Afronauts - Quest Under Capricorn
Silent Whale Becomes A Dream - Canopy
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Tales of Murder and Dust - Hallucination of Beauty
The Black Heart Rebellion - Har Nevo
The Funk Ark - High Noon
The Samuel Jackson Five - The Samuel Jackson Five
Threshold - March Of Progress
Toundra - III
Travis & Fripp - Follow
What The Blood Revealed - Harbour Of Devils

now, the top 20 releases of 2012. the ones that got the most playing time and had the deepest and most lingering impact on me.

Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony
A Whisper in the Noise - To Forget
Balmorhea - Stranger
Bersarin Quartett - Live at Dom, Moscow
Breaking Orbit - The Time Traveller
Caspian - Waking Season
From The Mouth Of The Sun - Woven Tide
Gravenhurst - The Ghost In Daylight
Greg Haines - Digressions
Hidria Spacefolk - Astronautica
Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil
Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion
Message To Bears - Folding Leaves
pg.lost - Key
Ryan Teague - Field Drawings
Shearwater - Animal Joy
Sigur Ros - Valtari
Stellardrone - Echoes
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Egor
Tor - Drum Therapy

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firstly, the honorable mentions of 2011.
good albums. highly recommended. all of them.

3epkano - Hans The Reluctant Wolf Juggler
65daysofstatic - Silent Running
Active Child - You Are All I See
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Blue Lunar Monkey - Here & Now
Blueneck - Repetitions
Braveyoung - We Are Lonely Animals
Claro De Luna - Lo Que Ha Sido Y Lo Que Será
Clem Leek - Home Outside
Empty Space Orchestra - Empty Space Orchestra
Entheogenic - Gaia Sophia
Feist - Metals
Followed By Ghosts - Still, Here
Husky - Forever So
Ikebe Shakedown - Ikebe Shakedown
Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miners' Hymns
Low - C'mon
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii
Miaou - The Day Will Come Before Long
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Møn - Sikfor Harenstrüp in 326 Øllegårt
Monkey3 - Beyond The Black Sky
My Brother the Wind - I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity
Parhelion - Midnight Sun
Rhian Sheehan - Seven Tales of The North Wind
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles - Brick City Ghosts
Riverside - Memories In My Head
Seven Saturdays - Love In The Time Of Anticipated Defeat
Sleepmakeswaves - ...And So We Destroyed Everything
Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour
Tenhi - Saivo
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell
The Liberators - The Liberators
The Zephyrs - Fool Of Regrets
Trembling Blue Stars - Correspondence
Tunturia - Invisible City
Vektor - Outer Isolation [Vinyl Rip]

the top 25 releases of 2011. the ones that got the most playing time and had the deepest and most lingering impact on me:

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Amplifier - The Octopus
Balmorhea - Live At Sint-Elisabethkerk
Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare /// Shadowland
Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
Double Handsome Dragons - Double Handsome Dragons
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Emphemetry - A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Grails - Deep Politics
Grouper - A I A: Dream Loss / Alien Observer
Hugo Kant - I don't want to be an Emperor
Jacaszek - Glimmer
Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
Nils Frahm - Felt
Ocoai - The Electric Hand
Paatos - Breathing
Remember Remember - The Quickening
Ryan Teague - Field Drawings
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - Deaden The Fields
The End Of The Ocean - Pacific.Atlantic
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Anthropomorphic
Wobbler - Rites At Dawn
Woodworkings - Goodbye Homes

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the best releases of 2010:

(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) - We, Burning Giraffes
52 Commercial Road - A Wreck Provides An Excellent Foundation
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Agnes Obel - Philarmonics
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Apparat Organ Quartet - Pólýfónía
Balmorhea - Constellations
Brendan Perry - Ark
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Caribou - Swim
Clem Leek - Holly Lane
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
Crowded House - Intriguer
Del Rey - Immemorial
Ef - Mourning Golden Morning
Emancipator - Safe in the Steep Cliffs
Feist - Look At What The Light Did Now
God Is An Astronaut - Age of the Fifth Sun
Goonies Never Say Die - No Words To Voice Our Hopes And Fears
Gotan Project - Tango 3.0
Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support
Guster - Easy Wonderful
Her Name Is Calla - The Quiet Lamb
Kaki King - Junior
Kaya Project - Desert Phase Remixes
Like Bells - Palma
Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul II
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Mogwai - Special Moves
Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
My Education - Sunrise
Ólafur Arnalds - ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness
Olan Mill - Pine
Overkill - Ironbound
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Quantum Fantay - Bridges Of Kukuriku
Rökkurró - Í Annan Heim
Sleepy Eyes Of Death - Toward A Damaged Horizon
Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You
Spock's Beard - X
Stubborn Tiny Lights VS Clustering Darkness Forever OK - The Infinite Regress
Talons - Hollow Realm
The New Pornographers - Together
The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing
The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun
Trembling Blue Stars - Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires
Woodworkings - we sit on floors we stand on chairs
Yasushi Yoshida - grateful goodbye
Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson - Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson
Zoe Keating - Into the Trees