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Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=rock masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Abu Lahab Humid Limbs of the Torn Beadsman (self) industrial 7/10
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel (Epic) songwriter 7/10
Celestiial Where Life Springs Eternal (Bindrune) doom-metal 6/10
Dirty Knobs Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell (self) ambient 7/10
Grails Deep Politics (Temporary Residence) post-rock 6/10
Grouper A l A - Dream Loss / Alien Observer (Kranky) songwriter 7/10
Haxan Cloak Excavation (Tri Angle) digital 7/10
King Tears Bat Trip King Tears Bat Trip (Hanged Man) tribal 7/10
Kylesa Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist) post-metal 6/10
Na-Hag Fragments Of Human (X-Line) IDM 6/10
Na-Hag Obscurant (X-Line) IDM 6/10
Nice Face Immer Etwas (Sacred Bones) garage 7/10
Pantha DuPrince Black Noise (Rough Trade) techno 6/10
Raime Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black) industrial 7/10
Skullflower Strange Keys To Untune God's Firmament (Neurot) noise 7/10
Spires That in the Sunset Rise Ancient Patience Wills It Again (Hairy Spider Legs) freak-folk 6/10
Swans The Seer (Young God) new wave 6/10
Teeth of the Sea Your Mercury (Rocket) psych-rock 7/10
Nick Zammuto Zammuto (Temporary Residence) songwriter 7/10
Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=rock masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan

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