Albums of 2013

[zeb]

oh btw are we doing that thing where we rank our top twenty and then someone (not me) adds it all up and tells us what the best albums of the year are?

Thanks for volunteering, Burt!

[Mojopin]

Man, this little album's fantastic!

[super nintendo chalmers]

Two late entries for my tops of the year.

A nice Aussie gem:

The Stevens- Worse Everyday

Dead Dog. Loud, hook heavy shit from Athens. Fantastic

[super nintendo chalmers]

Holy crap, this is good. Oddball Aussie garage from Canberra. Tastefully synthy.





I swear some of the best music being made nowadays comes from Australia.

[psychobain]

I dont see you talking about the Cut Copy, which is amazing, and they're from Australia...

[LetMeSleep]

Holy crap, this is good. Oddball Aussie garage from Canberra. Tastefully synthy.





I swear some of the best music being made nowadays comes from Australia.

Really enjoyed that album. Thanks SNC.

[super nintendo chalmers]

Nice, glad you liked it. I've been pretty obsessed with it these last 24 hours.

Might splurge and get the LP from overseas.

I'll check out Cut Copy soon too.

[Kevin Davis]

This will probably be my #1 this year:

William Tyler
Impossible Truth
Merge

An unlikely glut of instrumental guitar records (including great ones from Nathan Salsburg, Daniel Bachman, and Cian Nugent) were released in 2013; most were indebted, in one way or another, to John Fahey, who championed a finger-picking style that was rooted in the country-blues but allowed for all sorts of oddball dissonance in the 50s. Fahey called the style American Primitivism, and it repositioned the unaccompanied guitar as an able purveyor of idiosyncratic, non-verbal narratives. Impossible Truth, the second LP from Nashville guitarist William Tyler, is full of those kinds of stories, told wordlessly but remarkably well—each of the record’s singular tracks contains an entire universe of devastations, ecstasies, and resolutions. Tyler is a skilled and artful musician—and the atmospheric bits he layers on top of his compositions are undeniably good—but there’s something particularly stunning about the way these songs move: Tyler understands that the human experience is more about the small shifts, the little changes and stumbles and victories, all the things that repeat and start over anew. Impossible Truth comes about as close as anyone could hope to approximating the sound of living a life. —Amanda Petrusich

[Farmer John]

I vote for Haim.

[Scott]

John Moreland - In the Throes

Check it out. You can thank me later.

[Jorge]

John Moreland - In the Throes

Check it out. You can thank me later.

Your friend Scott sent it to me. It's pretty good.

[BurtReynolds]

the national - trouble will find me
foals - holy fire
qotsa - like clockwork
sigur ros - whatever it was called
big business - battlefields forever

[Dev]

1.) Tomahawk - Oddfellows
2.) Icarus Line - Slave Vows

3.) QOTSA - Clockwork
4.) HBS - In Deep Owl

I maybe listened to one other 2013 release...
Those were all great though

[elliseamos]

Junip... and then everything else.

[William Bloke]

According to the Sydney Morning Herald:

Albums of the year

1. Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
2. The Drones, I See Seaweed
3. Arcade Fire, Reflektor
4. James Blake, Overgrown
5. Neko Case, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
6. The National, Trouble Will Find Me
7. Jagwar Ma, Howlin'
8. Kanye West, Yeezus
9. Lorde, Pure Heroine
10. Arctic Monkeys, AM
11. Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
12. Dick Diver, Calendar Days
13. Big Scary, Not Art
14. DJ Koze, Amygdala
15. Julia Holter, Loud City Song
16. Horrorshow, King Amongst Many
17. Chvrches, The Bones of What You Believe
18. Abbe May, Kiss My Apocalypse
19. Gossling, Harvest of Gold
20. Foals, Holy Fire
21. Darkside, Psychic
22. Blood Orange, Cupid Deluxe
23. Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, The Hypnotiser
24. Savages, Silence Yourself
25. The Flaming Lips, The Terror

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mus ... z2nzLVa5jX

Not a terrible list I guess, but nothing like mine I must say.

When are you sorting the voting list out Burt?

[William Bloke]

And wtf? No Nick Cave? Nah, that list is shit.

[super nintendo chalmers]

That Dick Diver record is pretty great.

[BladeRunner]

Qotsa - Like Clockwork
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull
Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
Primal Scream - More Light
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Tomahawk - Odd Fellows
Arcade Fire - Reflector
Korn - Paradigm Shift
Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film
Lorde - Pure Heroine

Can't think of anymore for now.a

[Mojopin]

Steven Wilson's Raven is definitely on the best album of 2013 list...

Qotsa as well.

[psychobain]

Steven Wilson's Raven is definitely on the best album of 2013 list...

Qotsa as well.