2012 - Epilogue

(The late Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012)


Après six mois d'un mutisme assourdissant et d'une subséquente inexorable ascension d'inquiétude chez nos  lecteurs les plus atrabilaires, nous revoilà enfin au travail, du moins le temps de quelques articles au ton toujours aussi désespérément ampoulé et à la syntaxe définitivement indigeste et confuse. Vous êtes prévenus.
Nous vous conseillons cependant d'essayer de passer outre nos sempiternelles logorrhées et autres tergiversations superfétatoires, dans les limites évidemment des susceptibilités de chacun, et de vous intéresser plutôt au passionnant contenu qui est malheureusement, nous vous le concédons, très peu mis à son avantage dans cette enveloppe pompeuse et pédante rédigée par une bande de cuistres à destination malgré tout d'authentiques esthètes.
Finissons-en donc avec ces badineries superflues et passons aux réjouissances, puisque 2013 ne fait que commencer pour nous il est de coutume d'ouvrir le bal avec un bilan de l'année passée. L'occasion donc de porter un regard critique sur cette fastueuse année 2012 avant qu'un quelconque pastiche de loi Gayssot vienne nous interdire toute irruption impromptue dans un passé pourtant déjà fort sibyllin.

After six months of a deafening silence and a subsequent inexorable rise of anxiety among the most anguished of our readers, we are finally back to work, at least for a couple of articles as always hopelessly turgid and indigestible and with a definitely confused syntax. You have been warned.
However, we advise you to try to override our endless logorrhea to focus on the exciting content that  is unfortunately poorly highlighted in this pompous and pedantic envelope written by a bunch of conceited folks for authentic aesthetes.
So let's get these unnecessary poppycocks over and get down to business. 2013 has only just begun for us so as is the custom let's open the ball with a review of the past year.

En guise de hors d'oeuvre, une sélection de 12 des morceaux qui nous ont le plus enthousiasmé cette année:
As an hors d'oeuvre, here's a selection of 12 of the best track of 2012:



1. Hypnotized Narcissist - Tales Of Murder And Dust
(Hallucination of Beauty, Self-released)




2. Waking Up To Hand Grenades - Brian Jonestown Massacre
(Aufheben, A Records)




3. Dreams - The Koolaid Electric Company
(Random Noises And Organised Sounds, Self-released)




4. In Distance - Blue Angel Lounge
(Ewig, 8 MM Musik)




5. All These Things - Black Market Karma
(Comatose, Flower Power Records)






6. Song For A Junky - The Rockandys
(The Breaking Dawn Will Crown The One Who Let The Morning Glint To Come, Self-released)




7. When I'm Blue - Dead Rabbits
(The Reverb Conspiracy (compilation), Fuzz Club Records)



8. Wall Of Death - Thunder Sky
(Main Obsession, Born Bad Records)





9. By Our Side - The Blondi's Salvation
(Songs Of The New World Order, Self-released)





10. The Fall - Dirty Blonde Asylum
(The Dirty Blonde Asylum EP, Self-released)




11. You're So High (When You Cry) - The Confederate Dead
(It Was Meant To Happen, Transparent Recordings)





12. Diamonds - Lola Colt
(The Reverb Conspiracy (compilation), Fuzz Club Records)





Et sans plus attendre, le plat de résistance: nos 12 albums préférés accompagnés de 12 EP (ou single) qu'il ne fallait pas manquer en 2012:
And without further ado, the dish: our 12 favorite albums of 2012 along with 12 EP (or single) that was impossible to miss this year:


2012's Top 12 Albums:

1. The Koolaid Electric Company - Random Noises And Organised Sounds
(Self-released)


2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
(A. Records)



3. Tales Of Murder And Dust - Hallucination Of Beauty
(Self-released)



4. Black Market Karma - Cocoon
(Flower Power Records)


5. The Rockandys - The Breaking Dawn Will Crown The One Who Let The Morning Glint To Come
(Self-released)



6. Blondi's Salvation - Songs Of The New World Order
(Self-released)



7. Black Market Karma - Comatose
(Flower Power Records)



8. Wall Of Death Main Obsession
(Born Bad Records)



9. The Confederate Dead - It Was Meant To Happen
(Transparent Recordings)



10. Technicolor Poets - The Echoing Green
(Kommun 2)



11. Helicon - Suburban Decay
(Self-released)



12. The Laurels - Plains
(Rice is Nice)





Our Top 12 EP/Single of 2012:


1. The Blue Angel Lounge - Ewig
(8 MM Musik)



2. The Murlocs - Tee Pee EP
(Flightless)



3. The Dirty Blonde Asylum - The Dirty Blonde Asylum
(Self-released)



4. Dead Horse One - Heavenly Choir of Jet Engines
(Cranes Records)



5. The Jabberwocky Band - Siamese Delirium
(Self-released)



6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Onward To The Wall
(Dead Oceans)



7. The Vera Violets - Somewhere Else
(Self-released)



8. Black Manila - Fiasco / England
(Self-released)



9. The Wild Eyes - Blue Haze
(Self-released)



10. Hookworms - Hookworms
(Faux Discx)



11. Noise Exposure - Noise Exposure
(Self-released)



12. The Janitors - Head Honcho EP
(Your ears have been bad and need to be punished Records)



Pour terminer cette orgie sonore , voici une sélection de compilations parues en 2012 qui devraient occuper vos oreilles pour quelques temps, dont l'indispensable Reverb Conspiracy, regroupant 19 des meilleurs groupes de la scène psychédélique européenne sur matériel galvanoplastique le tout dans un somptueux écrin signé Nonni Dead (Dead Skeletons), en d'autres termes le Saint Graal de tout amateur de musique psychédélique digne de ce nom.
To complete this orgy of sound, here's a selection of compilations published in 2012 that should mind your ears for a while, including the indispensable Reverb Conspiracy, that brings together 19 of the best European bands of the psychedelic scene ona double LP sumptuously packed in a gatefold sleeve drawn by Nonni Dead (Dead Skeletons), in other words the Holy Grail of every lover of psychedelic music worthy of the name.

The Reverb Conspiracy (Fuzz Club Record & The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
limited release on a double LP available here, full stream of the compilation here

Dogs Got A Bone
Dogs Got A Bone - The Album (available for Free Download)
2012 - The Year of the Dog (available for Free Download)

The Psychedelic Undeground Generation
Volume 1 to 4 (available for Free Download)

The Active Listener
The Active Listener Psychedelic Samplers (available for Free Download)

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