BurtReynolds wrote: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!
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Mon December 09, 2013 11:51 pm
by Mojopin
Man, this little album's fantastic!
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Sat December 14, 2013 6:57 pm
by 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
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Tue December 17, 2013 4:00 am
by 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.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Tue December 17, 2013 8:50 pm
by psychobain
I dont see you talking about the Cut Copy, which is amazing, and they're from Australia...
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Tue December 17, 2013 9:52 pm
by LetMeSleep
super nintendo chalmers wrote: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.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Wed December 18, 2013 4:55 am
by 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.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Wed December 18, 2013 2:14 pm
by 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
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Wed December 18, 2013 5:47 pm
by Farmer John
I vote for Haim.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Thu December 19, 2013 3:37 am
by Scott
John Moreland - In the Throes
Check it out. You can thank me later.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Thu December 19, 2013 3:38 am
by Jorge
Scott wrote:John Moreland - In the Throes
Check it out. You can thank me later.
Your friend Scott sent it to me. It's pretty good.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Thu December 19, 2013 4:28 am
by BurtReynolds
the national - trouble will find me
foals - holy fire
qotsa - like clockwork
sigur ros - whatever it was called
big business - battlefields forever
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Thu December 19, 2013 10:03 pm
by 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
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Thu December 19, 2013 10:52 pm
by elliseamos
Junip... and then everything else.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Fri December 20, 2013 5:06 am
by 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
Not a terrible list I guess, but nothing like mine I must say.
When are you sorting the voting list out Burt?
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Fri December 20, 2013 5:07 am
by William Bloke
And wtf? No Nick Cave? Nah, that list is shit.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Fri December 20, 2013 5:53 am
by super nintendo chalmers
That Dick Diver record is pretty great.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Sat December 21, 2013 4:50 am
by 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
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Sun December 22, 2013 3:10 am
by Mojopin
Steven Wilson's Raven is definitely on the best album of 2013 list...
Qotsa as well.
Re: Albums of 2013
Posted: Sun December 22, 2013 3:23 pm
by psychobain
Mojopin wrote:Steven Wilson's Raven is definitely on the best album of 2013 list...
