Kosmik Radiation Radio Top 25 New Releases of 2012

1		Dr. John "Locked Down" (Nonesuch)
2		Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Mature Themes" (4AD)
3		OM "Advaitic Songs" (Drag City)
4		Scott Walker "Bish Bosch" (4AD)
5 (tie)		Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Americana" (Reprise) and "Psychedelic Pill" (Reprise)
6		Swans "The Seer" (Young Gods)
7		Mission of Burma "UnSound" (Fire)
8		Peaking Lights "Lucifer" (Mexican Summer)
9		Blues Control "Valley Tangents" (Drag City)
10		Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. "Son Of A Bitches Brew" (Important)
11		Black Bananas "Rad Times Xpress IV" (Drag City)
12		Amps For Christ & Woods "Woods / Amps For Christ" (Shrimper)
13		Chuck Prophet "Temple Beautiful" (Yep Rock)
14		Deerhoof "Breakup Song" (Polyvinyl)
15		Lee Ranaldo "Between The Times And The Tides" (Matador)
16		Menahan Street Band "The Crossing" (Dunham/Daptone)
17		Six Organs Of Admittance "Ascent" (Drag City)
18		Thee Oh Sees "Putrifiers II" (In The Red)
19		Lumerians "Transmissions From The Telos Vol. 4" (Permanent)
20		Moon Of Ostara "The Star Child" (4Zero)
21		Pond "Beard, Wives, Denim" (Modular)
22		MV & EE "Space Homestead" (Woodsist)
23		Eternal Tapestry "A World Out Of Time" (Thrill Jockey)
24		Laetitia Sadier "Silencio" (Drag City)
25		John Cale "Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood" (Domino)

Baby Woodrose “Third Eye Surgery” (Bad Afro)
Black Dice “Mr. Impossible” (Ribbon)
Black Moth Super Rainbow “Cobra Juicy” (Rad Cult)
Black Mountain “Year Zero (original soundtrack)” (Jagjaguwar)
Blue Control & Laraaji “FRKWYS vol. 8” (RVNG)
Bobby Conn “Macaroni” (Fire)
DJ Food “Search Engine” (Ninja Tune)
Eric Copeland “Limbo” (Underwater Peoples)
Flying Lotus “Until The Quiet Comes” (Warp)
The Fuck Knights “Let It Bleed” (Boss Hoss)
Georgia Ann Muldrow “Seeds” (SomeOthaShip)
GlowPeople “Things...” (self release)
Gonjasufi “MU.ZZ.LE” (Warp)
Ladyhawke “Anxiety” (Modular)
Liars “WIXIW” (Mute)
The Luck of Eden Hall “Alligators Eat Gumdrops” (self release)
Million Brazilians “Dyngia Salon” (Psychic Sound Recordings)
Moon Duo “Circles” (Sacred Bones)
Nice Face “Horizon Fires” (Hozac)
The Orb featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry “The Orbserver In The Star House” (Cooking Vinyl/The End)
Patti Smith “Banga” (Columbia)
Pontiak “Echo Ono” (Thrill Jockey)
Radar Eyes “Radar Eyes” (Hozac)
The Setting Son “Before I Eat My Eyes And Ears” (Bad Afro)
Shonen Knife “Pop Tune” (P-Vine/Good Charamel)
Solus 3 “Corner Of The Dub” (Solus 3 Recordings)
Sun Araw “The Inner Treaty” (Sun Ark)
Sun Araw, G. Geddes Gangres & The Congos “Icon Give Thank (FRKWYS vol. 9)” (RVNG)
Tame Impala “Lonerism” (Modular)
Ty Segall Band “Slaughterhouse” (In The Red)
Wave Sleep Wave “Wave Sleep Wave” (Curb Cut)
White Hills “Frying On This Rock” (Thrill Jockey)
Woods “Bend Beyond” (Woodsist)

Best Local Albums (from Madison, WI):

(in alphabetical order)

Beefus "The Itching Down Below" (self release)
Burial Hex "Book Of Delusions" (Cold Spring)
Cribshitter "Methlehem" (Medicated G)
Golden Donna "Golden Donna" (Not Not Fun)
The Hussy "Weed Seizure" (Tic Tac Totally)
Mercy Whip "Mercy Whip" EP (self release)
Samantha Glass "Mysteries From The Palomino Skyliner" (Not Not Fun)
Second Family Band "Wrong Carnival, Kid" cassette (Nonotearjerk)
Spires That In The Sunset Rise "Ancient Patience Wills It Again" (Hairy Spider Legs)
Trin Tran "Dark Radar" EP (Drag City)
Wife "Demo" (self release)
Zebras "Zebras" (self release)
Plus the #8 album of the year by Peaking Lights was recorded in Madison

A		Can "The Lost Tapes" (Spoon/Mute) recorded 1968-1977
B		Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band "Bat Chain Puller" (Zappa Vaulternative) recorded 1976