Psychoactive Soundscapes: Top 20 Mind-Bending Albums For 2012: 20. Scriptures – Self-Titled

• MAIN POST
• 20. Scriptures – Self-Titled
• 19. House of Hayduk – City of Quartz
• 18. Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Phrarmacokinetics
• 17. Goat – World Music
• 16. The Mars Volta – Noctorniquet / Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Octopus Kool Aid
• 15. Midday Veil – Integratron
• 14. Baroness – Yellow & Green
• 13. Om – Advaitic Songs
• 12. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
• 11. Six Organs of Admittance – Ascent
• 10. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
• 09. Tokyoidaho – Self-Titled
• 08. Aesop Rock – Skelethon
• 07. Ancestors – In Dreams And Time
• 06. Gaytheist – Stealth Beats
• 05. Liars – WIXIW
• 04. Guided By Voices – Class Clown Spots A UFO / The Bears For Lunch
• 03. Soundgarden – King Animal
• 02. Astra – The Black Chord
• 01. El-P – Cancer For Cure

20.
Scriptures – Self-Titled (Translinguistic Other)

PURCHASE RECORD ON TRANSLINGUISTIC OTHER

This album took a while to catch up with me. Coming from the local psych freak out Translinguistic Other label, I was kind of expecting it to be more, you know, psych freak outy. But it’s way more subtle vibes here in the more minimalistic tradition of trance induction, and that threw me for a few listens. Also, it’s kind of post-rocky, which is a genre I’ve always liked but thought was getting a little overcrowded. Also, it’s kind of instra-stoner-metaly, which is a genre I love but has also been getting a tad overcrowded as of late. Also, it’s kind of country twangy, which in Seattle has been retardedly overdone in the last five years. Then I realized I hadn’t honestly heard a post-rock-surf-twang-metal band (Did I mention the surf rock influence? That’s not so overcrowded) ever and that it was some incredibly well thought out, expertly crafted shit. Also, when the extra layer of delayed distortion guitars finally enter the mix after slow building for a while, you feel sufficiently out of sorts. These guys are self-described “devotional slow-burning-psyc-metal”. TLO approved.