Best Albums of 2013
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- trooperbill
I loved last years recommendations.
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- microkorg0
chvrches are causing a bit of a stir at the moment. a glasgow band.
they've got a couple of good stand-out tracks on the album - some of the rest are a bit "meh" and fillers.
some great synth sounds though.
- kingsteven0
do you know how log it takes me to do one of these lists!? see you in 3 months.
- where's the prediction thread from January. Think I had Primal Scream and Girls Names... They'll be both on it.kingsteven
- detritus0
*sharp inhalation of breath*
Album, eh?
There's been loads of good tunes this year, but a whole album? I can only think of Lapalux's ‘Nostalchic’ as being a whole album's worth of music I'll happily sit and listen to in its entiriety.
- There's been fuck loads of decent albums this year, like every year. vIanbolton
- Haxan Cloak's alright - but from my perspective, there're very few whole albums I listen to from this year.detritus
- ..as i say - a fuckload of good tunes though. That was my problem. Like BoC below - stonking first tune, limp albumdetritus
- Ianbolton0
Top of my head:
Haxan Cloak – Excavation
Forest Swords – Engravings
Young Fathers – Tape Two
Gold Panda – Half of Where You Live
Daughter – If You Leave
Deerhunter – Monomania
Kanye – Yeesus
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels
- antimotion0
- can't believe this is only from this year. just saw them for the first time on saturday, excellent band.kingsteven
- sem0
- rascuache0
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time
Picked it up on a whim last week, possibly my fave album of the year.Some other stuff I really liked:
King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Queens - Like Clockwork
British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
- sem0
Great tracks from great 2013 albums.
Krizz Kaliko - Why Me (from Son Of Sam album)
Haim - Forever (from Days Are Gone)
J Cole - Power Trip (from Born Sinner album)
Yelawolf - F.A.S.T Ride (from Trunk Muzik Returns)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (from The Heist)
- reanimate0
Photodementia - Fig.04c
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls
Ikonika - Aerotropolis
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
SHXCXCHCXSH - STRGTHS
Siriusmo - EnthusiastHaving said that, albums seem to become less relevant every year like detritus said...
- benfal990
The worst year since decades.
Bands having a long career is now very rare, we're at the age of temporary or disposable bands, internet has change the way we consume every cultural products; we want new stuff all the time.
A band last only a couple months or a few years now.
And the democratisation of music publishing (anyone can produce and publish music for a few dollars now) is flooding the "market" with hundreds of crappy bands manking super boring music. Every weeks dozens of new albums appears here and there. We look at music blogs and they dump us a truck load of informations about so many bands, we can't go with the flow.
The music "business" has changed.
Albums that will become classics are now very very rare; almost all your "albums of the year" will fade into time and no one will listen to them in 20 years.
- This is a bit cynical.CyBrainX
- Someone doesn't listen to enough music.detritus
- its the opposite... i also maintain a blog about new music since 7 years... iam really into itbenfal99
- name an album from 2012 or 2013 that people will still listen in 20 years?benfal99
- First - give me a time machine.detritus
- what's your blog @benfal99 i really would like to know what you are listening. no joke, just curious.D4W33D
- mu6.cabenfal99
- agree 100%drgs
- CyBrainX0
of Montreal - Lousy with Silvianbriar
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Tedeshi Trucks - Made Up Mind
Savages - Silence Yourself
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Portugal.The Ma n- Evil Friends
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get
MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Sentimental favorite: David Bowie - The Next Day
Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir
Buke and Gase - General Dome
A$AP Rocky - Love Live A$AP Rocky- yeah A$AP Rocky's album was actually good, wasn't that 2012 tho?sem
- kingsteven0
making sure this makes it on to the first page
- loved it in Feb, just realised recently these songs have wormed their way in to the same warm fuzzy place in my heart as their older recordings.kingsteven
- heart as their older recordings...kingsteven
- Haha I totally forgot about this! Listened to this a LOT back at the start of the year.rascuache
- It didn't worm it's way into my brain like the old ones.CyBrainX
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- GM2780
am I right, ppl?