Top 10 LP’s of 2012:
Runners-Up:
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line [Blackest Ever Black]
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales [Ghost Box]
Mark Van Hoen - The Revendent Diary [Editions Mego]
Lukid - Lonely at the Top [Werk Discs]
Panabrite - Soft-Terminal [Digitalis]
Suum Cuique - Ascetic Ideals [Modern Love]
Charlatan - Isolatarium [Type]
Julia Holter - Ekstasis [Domino]
Vessel - Order of Noise [Tri Angel]
Bee Mask - When We Were Eating Unripe Pears [Spectrum Spools]
Mark Fell - Sentielle Objectif Actualité [Editions Mego]
12” Singles (for clubbing or hermiting):
Blawan - His He She & She [Hinge Finger]
Skudge - Fingers/Vessel [Nonplus]
Joey Anderson - Earth Calls [Deconstruct]
Levon Vincent - Stereo Systems [Novel Sound]
Senate Focus - 2.5, 3.33333, 5, & 10 [Sensate Focus]
Steve Moore - Panther Moderns [L.I.E.S.]
Vatican Shadow - Jordanian Desert [Hospital Productions]
Ike Yard - Regis/Monoton Versions [Blackest Ever Black]
Ø - Syväys [Sähkö]
Powell - Body Music EP[Diagonal]
Reissues & Compilations:
Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07 [Oral]
Laurie Spiegal - The Expanding Universe [Unseen Worlds]
Porter Ricks - Biomechanics [Touch]
Black Rain - Now I’m Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-1995 [Blackest Ever Black]
Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons[Type]
Various Artists - L.I.E.S. Presents American Noise [L.I.E.S.]
Regis - Complete Works 1994−2001 [Downwards]
Various Artists - Trevor Jackson Presents: Metal Dance: Industrial, Post-Punk, EBM Classics & Rarities 1980-1988 [Strut]
Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes: Volume One [Young Americans]
Ike Yard - Self-Titled [Desire]
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops [Temporary Residence]
Drexciya - Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller: Volume Two [Clone]