#7

Earth "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method" (Southern Lord)

if i didn't mention it already, my list this year is populated with mostly instrumental music. and slow music. here we find Earth moving further away from the drony low end sludge (which they pretty much invented fifteen years ago) and approaching. . . country? blues? the friends of dean martinez way back when? the 19th century western landscape? the beautiful photos in the booklet certainly add that kind of flavor to the proceedings, and the music fits them like some ken burns documentary just waiting to be made.

and another thing: hex signs didn't work. here's looking at you, mike.