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Horns Up Ya Shitters! Best New Metal LPs Reviewed By Toby Cook

- Source: The Quietus

That's it, it's over; time to kiss the loved ones goodbye; time to decide who gets my Battlestar Galactic box set, my first edition copy of An Innocent Man and time to give my battered and scratched beyond buggery vinyl copy of Seven Churches one last spin, because for all the great metal out there I'm not sure I want to live anymore in a world that has degenerated to a point where McDonald's think is ok to use divorce, a broken home and one of the most difficult and emotionally effecting episodes any family can ever go through as a marketing tool to sell steroid-injected, sugar-swollen burgers and no one bats a fucking eyelid.

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Terrence Dixon, Giant Robot

- Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

Darren Cunningham has long acknowledged Detroit minimalist Terrence Dixon as an influence on his work as Actress, but it has taken years for the two to actually appear on a record together (excluding a Rush Hour sampler featuring a pair of their remixes, for different artists).

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SW9

- Source: XLR8R

Kingdoms , Fort Romeau 's sterling debut, was a surprising turn for the typically rough-and-ready (perhaps amateurish, on occasion) 100% Silk. On that mini-LP, Mike Norris, a keyboardist who cut his teeth as part of La Roux's touring band, delivered a set of lavishly textured house tracks, introducing himself as an artist with an unusually elegant vision in an era where brute-force live jams are quickly becoming the norm.

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Starkey - Orbits

- Source: BBC Music

When Starkey emerged in the mid-00s, he represented thrilling evidence that grime and dubstep wasn't just spreading across the UK, but all the way to Philadelphia, PA.

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Where Pail Limbs Lie EP

- Source: XLR8R

Despite coming as something of a surprise, it makes a lot of sense that Birmingham techno luminaries Anthony Child (a.k.a. Surgeon ) and Karl O'Conner (a.k.a. Regis) should choose to revive their adventurous collaborative project in 2012.

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George FitzGerald, Child Remixes

- Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

From the moment of his first Hotflush release on, George FitzGerald has steadily grown to become one of the hallmarks of a strangely fertile, but undifferentiated area between humid dubstep and flexing house music, drenched in warm bass and euphoric diva vocals.

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Ty Segall

- Source: Raven Sings The Blues

So in a year with two other Ty Segall albums already on the docket (three if you count the singles compilation on In The Red) it'd be ludicrous to say this was highly anticipated… but that's just the case.

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Thee Oh Sees: Putrifiers II

- Source: Pitchfork Media

At this past July's Pitchfork Music Festival, the scheduling gods played a cruel joke on fans of fuzzed-out San Francisco garage-rock by placing scene vets Thee Oh Sees and their prodigal-son pal Ty Segall on competing stages with overlapping set times.

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Gucci Mane – ‘Lemonade’

- Source: One A Day

If you've ever walked past a works site and felt the seismic rumble as they drilled underground, you probably know how Gucci Mane felt when 'Lemonade' dropped.

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The Locust: Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

- Source: Pitchfork Media

It's hard to imagine music less in tune with indie rock values (or just plain rock values) circa 2012 than whatever it is the Locust is doing on Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs , a collection of obscurities that packs 44 songs into almost as many caterwauling, grinding, ugly-ass minutes.

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