Favourite Album of 2013

Quick list...

DJ Koze - Amygdala
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Forest Swords - Engravings
Foals - Holy Fire
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
James Holden - The interiors
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a pretty daze
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

I went to the manchester show, fucking wild

so stoked on it

I was tempted to go back to the second Garage show. I was playing the Union Chapel (just around the corner) and was finished in time for his set.

Some of my favourites:

Deerhunter - Monomania
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Neko Case - The harder things get, the more I fight etc (seeing her tonight woo!)
Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust
Cloud Control - Dream Cave
Father John Misty - Fear Fun

FJM was last year I know but I didn't get it until this summer and has been the soundtrack of my year without doubt.

I was tempted to go back to the second Garage show. I was playing the Union Chapel (just around the corner) and was finished in time for his set.

i think id be voiceless for a week if id gone twice in a row. totally worth it though

Quick list...
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7

Sooo much. Video for Americans was wastegrounds of the internet kinda business. Real trippy.
He somehow reminds me of Slugabed. That constant beta wave look.

Cloud Control - Dream Cave

This sounds like it was made just for me

A few singles got under my skin but I'm too ashamed to admit what they are.

spill the beans..........and I don't mean on the toast.....

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats (saw them open for Sabbath last night ) - Mind Control

I was a bit meh about this... Will have to give it another listen...

hate to be that guy, but so what....

Two fave LPs of the year were a reissued 70's private press LP & a 3LP new age compilation.

1. The wonderful 'Inside the Shadow' by 'Anonymous' on Macchu Piccu. Now sold out. But worth tracking down. Byrds meets Fairport.
   
   

Anonymous "Inside The Shadow" Sweet Lilac 1976 - YouTube

1. I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 3LP on LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
   
   

I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 | LITA 107 | What's Inside? - YouTube

1. http://youarelistening.to/ is still the perfect 'radio station'
   

1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
   
   
   

#megalozzles

Thought it was a decent record, at least 3 bangerz on there IMO

I realize you asked for best album of the year, and didn't ask for my shit opinions on the 70 albums I like best, but fuck the rules, you know? In a rough order of the albums I liked best:

Deafheaven - Sunbather
They may be kind of hipster (especially if you look at them). But I love this album, mix of evil and shoegaze that goes toward navelgaze. One of the best shows I went to this year.

Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise
Some of the best raps you will hear this year.

Locrian - Return to Annihilation
Atmospheric metal-tinged tortured vocals. I loved this, and it was maybe my most listened to album of the year. That is partly because it was great but to be fair, also partly because I am able to listen to it and work at the same time. Headphone musics

JK Flesh - Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination
I liked Godflesh, I like Jesu, it makes sense that I like this. Even though all three are different, This album is a split but I like the JK Flesh tracks better. Industrial, experimental, metalic, digital bass heavy and good.

Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi Story (+4:30 AM single)
I loved this listened to it daily for a while. 4:30 AM was on the next album but is a solid song

Skullflower - Fucked On a Pile Of Corpses
Experimental, Metal, Industrial, Feedback. This came out last year but I listened to it this year for the first time so I included it. It is the best of his records in my opinion.

Aluk Todalo - Occult Rock
What would it be like if black metallers played with kraut rock style groove and circular patterns? Well it would be this and it would be good. "Occult Rock" get it?(boooo)

Gnaw - This Face
*I was a pretty big Khanate fan and Alan Dubain's tortured vocals are nice to hear again. *

Darkside - Psychic
Nicolas Jaar exprimental musics. More listenable than his older things. One of the very worst Pitchfork reviews written in recent memory (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18586-darkside-psychic/) I have a 'foment of bubbling resentment' toward the reviewer

Pinkish Black - Razed to the ground
One of quite a few hybrid metal+atmospheric shoegazy bands with good albums this year. Lots of groove-laden riffs on this one. Best when it progresses to full on freakout mode. Hate the name full on. Almost don't listen to them because of the name.

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
He released this for free for some reason, it was better than any more mainstream release. Find it cop it etc. if you haven't

NAILS - Abandon All Life
Fast, evil. GBH black metal kindof. Good.

Bonus label compilation:

Hellfyre Club - Dorner vs Tookie
Some great songs on this. Some of everyone's favorite LA MCs together. Busdriver, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, milo. My only complaint, on one of the strongest tracks they keep saying 'too soon' in the hook. 'Too soon' is the sorority hoe/popped-collar dick who-thinks-[s]he-is-a-real-edgy-funny-person's replacement for actual funny. KAIL(I think?) outs them as nerds with "the shit I been seeing on the news bro/ been making me feeling like chaotic-neutral." At any rate go and bandcamp that shit because it is good although may be a little too soon. http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

I liked that Deafheaven record but maintain that it'd be better if the vocals were replaced with synths

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The wonderful 'Inside the Shadow' by 'Anonymous' on Macchu Piccu. Now sold out. But worth tracking down. Byrds meets Fairport.

I really like that and a quick search shows that there's plenty still available for sale.

I really like that and a quick search shows that there's plenty still available for sale.

Oh cool. The label and the distro are out of LP, but a few places seem to have it. It is awesome.

This was probably my second favourite reissue of the year, but I managed to scoop an original on ebay = WIN> http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00999

garbage & the flowers 'carousel' - YouTube

Couldn't pick just 10, so had to do a top 20. In no particular order, but starting with the best:

Donato Dozzy - Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask
Damian Dubrovnik - First Burning Attraction
Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Kareem - Porto Ronco
Lussuria - American Babylon
Alberich - Machine Gun Nest: Cassette Works, Vol. 0
Mohammad - Som Sakrifis
Pharmakon - Abandon
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Liberez - Sane Men Surround
Puce Mary - Success
Nails - Abandon All Life
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Mika Vainio - Kilo
Samuel Kerridge - A Fallen Empire
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - The Plant With Many Faces / Folklore Venom
William Basinski - Nocturnes
Dethscalator - Racial Golfcourse No Bitches

Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

This is brilliant, I'm surprised it's only come up once so far.

For me it's between this and the Arcade Fire album I think.

Darkside - Psychic
Nicolas Jaar exprimental musics. More listenable than his older things. One of the very worst Pitchfork reviews written in recent memory (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18586-darkside-psychic/) I have a 'foment of bubbling resentment' toward the reviewer

That was one of the most hilarious reviews I ever read. At the time, reading the teeth of a leech with my eyeballs sounded like a more pleasant time to spend. Pitchfork loves the smell of its own shit.
Good album, but prefer his older shiz.

^ didn't really rate that album - seemed to meander for ages and go nowhere

Pitchfork reviews are often laughably bad, sometimes making it hard to even tell what genre the album is in, much less what it sounds like, much less if it was good or not.

That being said, as i wrote elsewhere: My eyes turned red when at the word "foment". Steam came out of my ears when I read "confluence of ostentatious extravagance." I turned into The Hulk and murdered everyone in my office when I read "it was a hell of a party."

Good album, but prefer his older shiz.

Pitchfork review in less that ten words.

Thought it was a decent record, at least 3 bangerz on there IMO

It's awesome, so smooth - lose yourself to dance, the Giorgio tune, doing it right are all awesome, and get lucky was the tune of the summer. I had this CD on repeat for weeks

Pisti only likes the stuff they did before getting big

Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark

Gold Panda - Half of where you live
The Range - Nonfiction

Oneohtrix Point Never was a bit bland no?