



Top 10





01. Taylor Deupree - Faint [ 12k













02. High Aura'd - Sanguine Futures [ Bathetic













03. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996 [ PAN













04. Bee Mask - Vaporware/Scanops [ Room40













05. Brambles - Charcoal [ Serein













06. Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Vanity Fair [ Recital













07. Recondite - On Acid [ Acid Test













08. Billow Observatory - Billow Observatory [ felte

























10. Ian Hawgood - The Shattered Light [ Koen Music













Honourable Mentions





Here is just a brief (but very excellent) selection of the remainder of my favourite albums from the year just passed. No particular order here (also no formatting). Everyone understands how Google works by now anyways...







Christoph Berg - Paraphrases* Black Elk - Sparks Ricardo Donoso - Assimilating The Shadow Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games Gabriel Saloman - Adhere Drape - An Idea And Its Map Wolf Maps - Landforms Kyle Bobby Dunn - Bring Me The Head Of Kyle Bobby Dunn Rain Drinkers - Yesodic Helices Pulse Emitter - Aeons Simon Scott - Below Sea Level Troy Schafer - Evening Song Awaken Shed - The Killer Celer - Without Retrospect, The Morning Hakobune - All the Other Hearts I Knew Offthesky and Man Watching The Stars – Afar, Farewell Willamette – Always In Postscript Sparkling Wide Pressure – Grandfather Harmonic Vikki Jackman - A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring Ex Confusion - Embrace Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing SaffronKeira - A New Life









*Christoph Berg - Paraphrases gets the prestigious Sleep Cycles "Best Artwork And Packaging 2012" award. So satisfying. Facture always does a wonderful job.







-Sleep Cycles

Firstly, let me say that 2012 was an incredible year for music. The volume of exceptional records put out by so many great labels during the year was almost innumerable, and picking a top however many albums isn't the easiest job in the World with that in mind. To tell you the truth, I've been putting it off for a month now and to keep it simple, I decided to limit my list to a Top 10 and then supplement that list with another list [of Honourable Mentions]. Here goes: