my list:
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Peter Hammill - In Camera
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Agalloch - The Mantle
Infernal Gates - From the Mist of Dark Waters
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Drottnar - Monolith ep
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
"I think we’re living almost essentially in a socially, culturally artistic ice age where banality and mediocrity have now triumphed as a virtue." - A. Averill