mohammad: sakrifis

This is a beautiful video from the Mohammad forthcoming album Som Sakrifis on Pan. Mohammad is a greek trio who composed instrumental music using a cello, a contra bass and oscillators. I don't know too much about them but this mesmerizing and dark title is a very good start to know about their music better. Som Sakrifis will be released this month.

hair police: mercurial rites

I am really excited about this new Hair Police's record. Mercurial Rites wasn't really expected and it is welcome. Formed by Mike Connelly, Robert Beatty and Trevor Tremaine, we haven't heard much news from Hair Police, the american noise band. Their last album was released in 2008. Since then, the members have been still active. Mike Connelly with Failing Lights and Wolf Eyes. Robert Beatty with Three Legged Race and his career as a visual artist, designing many record covers. Trevor Tremaine jamming with Warmer Milks among others. Mercurial Rites is out now on Type and it's so good.

grouper: the man who died in his boat

Liz Harris' forthcoming album is a collection of unreleased tracks. The eleven songs on this record sound much more like ballads than her recent work. Beautiful, dark and haunting as usual. In addition, Kranky reissue Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill initially released by Grouper in 2008.

your victorian breasts

Your Victorian Breasts is a great compilation full of amazing unreleased tracks. Here is the list of the artists involved: A R P, Ignatz, Filipe Felizardo, Robert Hampson, Alastair Galbraith, Date Palms, Roger Tellier-Craig, Black To Comm, Eric Chenaux, Syracuse Ear, Hamilton Yarns, Corridors, Pigeons, Alvarius B, Circuit des Yeux, Mendrugo, Raajmahal and Supreme Dicks. Your Victorian Breasts was compiled by Maxime Guitton (Ali Fib Gigs, curator...) and beautifully designed by Darryl Norsen. You can listen to it here and buy it at three:four records.

angel olsen: sweet dreams

Sweet Dreams is the A side from the new 7" by Angel Olsen. This record is aivalable here.

angels in america: tooth hound sand

Check their discography on Free Music Archive. Besides their albums, you can listen to their amazing live on the WFMU radio.

2012

I am not particularly found of Best of or whatever you call that (rewind, favorites...) but here's a list of what made me happier in 2012:

- Mirrorring Foreign Body LP (Kranky)
- Black To Comm Earth LP (De Stijl)
- Mike Wexler Dispossession LP (Mexican Summer)
- Iibiis Rouge Hespherides LP (Weird Forest)
- Grouper A/A reissue LPs (Yellow Electric)
- Le Petit Chevalier An Age Of Wonder LP (Shelter Press)
- Pete Swanson Man with Potential LP (Type)
- Raime Quarter Turns Over a Living Line LP (Blackest Ever Black)
- Swans The Seer LPs (Young God records)
- Skull Defekts 2013-3012 EP (Thrill Jockey)
- Total Control Henge Beat LP (Iron Lung)
- Alexander Tucker Third Mouth LP (ThrilL Jockey)
- Amen Dunes Ethio Covers 7" (self)
- Helm Impossible Symmetry LP (Pan)
- Chicaloyoh Les Fantômes Sortent des Racines 7" (Tamed records)
- Hive Mind A Stagnant Plague Cast Through Shallow Earth LP (Helicopter)