Katharsis Dec. 30 '12, 2012 Retrospective Part I

Tonight I played some records (2012 releases) that caught my ear over the past year. I didn't have time for all of them so will continue next week. Download this week's show recording mp3

The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]
Disappears - Joa - Pre Language (Kranky)
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
Ulaan Markhor - Plague of Farewells - Ulaan Markor (Soft Abuse)
Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
JBM - Forests - Stray Ashes (Partisan Records)
Ormonde - Secret - Machine (Hometapes)
Jon Porras - Desert Flight - Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey)
Zelienople - Colored - The World is a House on Fire (Type)
Wolf Maps - Landforms - Landforms (Futuresequence)
Mirroring - Silent From Above - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Windy & Carl - Remember - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Oren Ombarchi - Salt - Audience of One (Touch)
Evan Caminiti - First Light II - Night Dust (Immune)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Night Ashes - Visiting This World (En/Of)
Good Night & Good Morning - Key Studies - Narrowing Type (Own Records)
Mark Eitzel - I Know the Bill is Due - Don't Be A Stranger (Merge)
The Luyas - Talking Mountains - Animator (Paper Bag)
Swans - Song for a Warrior - The Seer (Young God)
Cold Specks - Heavy Hands - I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (Arts & Crafts)
Felix - Sunday Night - Oh Holy Molar (Kranky)
Nils Frahm - Fa - Screws (Erased Tapes)
Moon Ate the Dark - Capsules II - Moon Ate the Dark (Sonic Pieces)
Jeff Zentner - Bleed For You - A Season Lost (Self-released)
Will Johnson - Riding From Within - Scorpion (Self-released)
Will Stratton - Honey Diamond - Post-Empire (Talitres)
Gareth Dickson - Noon - Quite A Way Away (12k)
Memory Drawings - Heptonstall - Music for Another Loss (Second Language)
Brambles - To Speak of Solitude - Charcoal (Serein)

Happy New Year!