Top 10 of 2013

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. James Blake - Overgrown
4. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
5. Kurt Vile - Wakin On a Pretty Daze

Pretty confident these will make my list in the end. Strong year so far.

[Acapelli]

your 1 and 2 are the same as mine

[dreamdead]

Excellent
1. My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v
2. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
3. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
4. Deafheaven - Sunbather
5. Heliotropes - A Constant Sea

Solid
6. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
7. Savages - Silence Yourself
8. Mikal Cronin - MCII
9. Chance the Rapper - Acidrap

[ContinentalOp]

1. My Bloody Valentine- MBV
2. Wire- Change Becomes Us

3. Future Bible Heroes- Partygoing
4. The Fall- Re-mit
5. Deerhunter- Monomania

[Idioteque Stalker]

2. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil

I considered this one. Been blaring Mirage Hall in my car.

[D_Davis]

1. Atlantis - House of Tomorrow
2. Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol. 1
3. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
4. Harold Budd - Jane 1-11
5. Magic Man - The Fox Den Demos
6. Sine Rider - Malan EP
7. Masayoshi Fujita - Stories
8. My Home, Sinking - s/t
9. Wixel - Revox Tapes
10. Rhye - Woman

[Idioteque Stalker]

your 1 and 2 are the same as mine

Post your list. I usually check out what people post in these threads.

Laura Marling now. She reminds me of Joni Mitchell, which is a good thing.

[EyesWideOpen]

Top 8

1. 7L, Esoteric & Inspectah Deck - Czarface
2. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
3. Disasterpeace - FZ: Side F / FZ: Side Z
4. Kanye West - Yeezus
5. Chvrches - Recover EP
6. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Mosquito
7. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
8. m83 - Oblivion Soundtrack

[Idioteque Stalker]

Classixx sounds like some Discovery-worship that's actually pretty decent, at least based on Holding On. Hadn't heard of your #1, but it reminded me that the new Ghostface is his strongest in years.

[dreamdead]

So the year is half over and I need more recs. Anyone else want to list what's rocking their cloud or other music player? Rudresh Mahanthappa's Gamak will likely be the best new jazz album I listen to this year. Technical, experimental, and a joy all at the same time.

[dreamdead]

Updated:

1. My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v
2. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
3. Deafheaven - Sunbather
4. Shane Carruth - Upstream Color Soundtrack
5. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
6. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
7. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Gamak
8. Heliotropes - A Constant Sea
9. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
10. Mikal Cronin - MCII

Need to give Vampire Weekend and Fuck Buttons some serious listening at some point here.

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. James Blake - Overgrown
4. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
5. Sean McCann - Music for Private Ensemble
6. Kurt Vile - Wakin On a Pretty Daze
7. Chance the Rapper - Acidrap
8. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
9. Arca - &&&&&
10. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

[Acapelli]

idiotecque stalker i like your style

what does the sean mccann and arca sound like?

[Idioteque Stalker]

They're the two most "experimental" things on my list.

McCann's album is suite for strings, percussion, voice and found sounds, but it has a messy quality that makes it gorgeous to me, like I'm not sure if it was improvised or meticulously composed. There are Reich influences and a lot of modern tonalities, but in the end a lot of it reminds me of the the cuts on Eno's Discreet Music where he fucks with Pachelbel's Cannon beyond all recognition.

Arca has a really new-sounding mix of dub and hip-hop. The &&&&& mixtape is all compressed (stay away D Davis). The sounds he works with, and the way he puts them together, is pretty unique but not always easy on the ears. Pretty wonky, sometimes kinda creepy. You'd just have to hear it. It's available to listen to and download for free on soundcloud last I checked. He also produced this song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtMl-uipA8

[EyesWideOpen]

Some changes:

I pretty much stopped listening to most hip-hop especially stuff celebrating derogatory views on women, gays, etc and other macho bullshit so since I haven't listened to the two hip-hop albums on my list since then I'm taking them off.

1. Icona Pop - This Is...Icona Pop
2. Major Lazer - Free the Universe
3. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
4. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
5. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
6. Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
7. Disasterpeace - FZ: Side F / FZ: Side Z
8. Knife Party - Haunted House EP
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
10. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

[dreamdead]

November update:

1. My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v
2. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
3. Deafheaven - Sunbather
4. Shane Carruth - Upstream Color Soundtrack
5. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
6. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
7. SubRosa - More Constant than the Gods
8. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
9. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
10. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Gamak

We'll see if Arcade Fire or Haken can move onto the list with more listening. Not sure if the Harold Budd release counts since it's technically older material.

[D_Davis]

November update:

1. My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v


Gotta check out the Stargazer Lilies. Should blow the mbv right off the list. ;)

I need to check out that Jon Hopkins release. Also, been meaning to check out that Gamak album since you first mentioned it.

[dreamdead]

Gotta check out the Stargazer Lilies. Should blow the mbv right off the list. ;)

I need to check out that Jon Hopkins release. Also, been meaning to check out that Gamak album since you first mentioned it.

SL's "Sad Colored Tears" is reminiscent of A Sunny Day in Glasgow. That's a good thing. Digging it so far; back half is stunning.

I would recommend the SubRosa album beyond the two you mention interest in. Hearing multiple violins mixed with sludgy doom and clean vocals makes for interesting listens.

[D_Davis]

Yeah - that first SubRosa track is great!

[Lucky]

My taste tends to skew more mainstream than most here. In no particular order...

Local Natives - Hummingbird
Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
The Neighbourhood - I Love You
Phantogram - Phantogram EP
The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Little Tybee - For Distant Viewing
James Blake - Overgrown
Atlas Genius - When It Was Now

And two 2012 albums I discovered this year and played the shit out of:

Electric Guest - Mondo
Milo Greene - Milo Greene

[dreamdead]

December update: some reordering and additions

1. Vienna Teng - Aims
2. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
3. My Bloody Valentine - m.b.v
4. Deafheaven - Sunbather
5. Shane Carruth - Upstream Color Soundtrack
6. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
7. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
8. Cheyenne Mize - Among the Grey
9. The Stargazer Lillies - We Are the Dreamers
10. SubRosa - More Constant than the Gods

H/M: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; Rudresh Mahanthappa; Haken; Phosphorescent (really front-loaded, sadly); Dirty Beaches; Janelle Monae; Bill Callahan; Anna von Hausswolff; Neko Case; Disclosure

[Derek]

Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2013 (http://flavorwire.com/428848/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2013/)

Pretty funny stuff and they threw quite a few more obscure ones in there too. It's a shame you missed out on the Laura Marling one, dreamdead. ;)

[dreamdead]

Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2013 (http://flavorwire.com/428848/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2013/)

Pretty funny stuff and they threw quite a few more obscure ones in there too. It's a shame you missed out on the Laura Marling one, dreamdead. ;)

I do love my tea. Meantime, I'm expecting that you'll have your top 25/30 list later in the month...?

[Derek]

I do love my tea. Meantime, I'm expecting that you'll have your top 25/30 list later in the month...?

It probably won't be til January unfortunately since I'll be in Europe for 3 weeks starting Sunday. I'm basically caught up with this years albums (though now with your additions, I have two), might be able to get a jump on it during the plane rides.

[Boner M]

1. Danny Brown - Old
2. Protomartyr - No Passion All Technique
3. Tim Hecker - Virgins
4. Fire! Orchestra - Exit
5. Angel Eyes - Final Fare
6. TV Colours - Purple Skies, Toxic River
7. Banque Allemande - Willst du Chinese sein musst du die
8. Miles - Faint Hearted
9. Useless Eaters - Hypertension
10. Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus

[Derek]

Thanks Boner. I was worried I was finished for the year and then you post a top 10 with 7 albums I haven't heard. :/

Love seeing Danny Brown at the top. He's better than Kanye, Jay-z and Death Grips combined. 'Handstand' may be the funniest thing released all year. The other 2 I've heard are also in my top 20.

[D_Davis]

3. Tim Hecker - Virgins


Check out the newest Gaston Arevalo (http://www.amazon.com/Rollin-Ballads-Gast%C3%B3n-Ar%C3%A9valo/dp/B00EPJ6COU/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_tit le_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1386962688&sr=8-1) if you like Hecker. While somewhat similar, I greatly prefer Arevalo because he embraces more of the sonic spectrum by including more low and mid-range frequencies in his drones and soundscapes (to my ears, Hecker's music exists far too much in the high-range, and causes my ears to fatigue quickly). His newest is not my favorite, but it is by far his noisiest ambient outing so you might dig it a bit more than I do.

[slqrick]

Kanye West - Yeezus
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Volcano Choir - Reprave
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
Pusha T - My Name is My Name

HM: King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, Death Grips - Government Plates, My bloody Valentine - mbv

[ledfloyd]

Something like:

1. Volcano Choir - Repave
2. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
3. Foxygen - Long Title
4. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
5. Leverage Models - s/t
6. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
7. Neko Case - Long Title
8. Run the Jewels - s/t
9. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
10. Yeezus? Kurt Vile? MBV?

[Acapelli]

Love seeing Danny Brown at the top. He's better than Kanye, Jay-z and Death Grips combined. 'Handstand' may be the funniest thing released all year.
well it's not like this is saying much. only 2 of those are any good

[Acapelli]

this is probably the first year where i don't feel like i've listened to enough albums to make a top ten list

a top tracks list i can totally do

[Derek]

well it's not like this is saying much. only 2 of those are any good

Ok. He's the best rapper out there, period.

[Acapelli]

there is certainly an argument to be made in his favor

have you heard the song he did on the bug's ep this year?

[Derek]

have you heard the song he did on the bug's ep this year?

I have now. Cool track, though I think I'll be passing on caesar salad's for a while now.

[slqrick]

Ok. He's the best rapper out there, period.

I like him a lot, and I liked Old, but it doesn't have the same replay value as XXX, in my opinion.

I think out of the new batch Kendrick is still holding onto the title belt.

Edit: I'd also take Pusha T over him, at the moment.

[ledfloyd]

Yeah, Kendrick is my favorite as well. His verse on Nosetalgia is fantastic.

[elixir]

15. a long way to fall down ulrich schnauss
14. cupid's head the field
13. personal record eleanor friedberger
12. run the jewels run the jewels
11. pink tape f(x)
10. vi är många som är vakna i natt nordpolen
9. everybody shinee
8. unleash yourself aye nako
7. tomorrow's harvest boards of canada
6. dx friendzone
5. impersonator majical cloudz
4. rival dealer burial
3. anima team rockit
2. anxiety autre ne veut
1. nightmare ending eluvium

[Ivan Drago]

1. Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun
2. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
3. Washed Out – Paracosm
4. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
5. Diarrhea Planet – I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams.
6. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
7. Anything In Return – Toro Y Moi
8. Local Natives – Hummingbird
9. James Blake - Overgrown
10. Capital Cities – In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery

Still need to listen to:

Arcade Fire – Reflektor
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Justin Timberlake’s new album

[Izzy Black]

Top 25

1. Beyoncé - Beyoncé
2. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
3. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
4. Sky Ferreira - My Time, Night Time
5. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
6. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
7. Rhye - Woman
8. Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons to Die
9. Snowden - No One in Control
10. Ariana Grande - Yours Truly
11. Wet - Wet (EP)
12. Lorde - Pure Heroin
13. Pusha T - My Name is My Name
14. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
15. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
16. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
17. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
18. Kanye West - Yeezus
19. FKA Twigs - EP2
20. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
21. Arctic Monkeys - AM
22. Ka - The Night's Gambit
23. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
24. Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir
25. Alice Boman - Skisser (EP)

[D_Davis]

The Rhye album is great as is his latest as Milosh.

[Thirdmango]

1. Foals -- Holy Fire
2. Everything Everything -- Arc
3. Childish Gambino -- Because The Internet
4. Caro Emerald -- The Shocking Miss Emerald
5. Daft Punk -- Random Access Memories
6. Kiev -- Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth
7. Anamanaguchi -- Endless Fantasy (Advance)
8. The Dismemberment Plan -- You Should Know
9. Chvrches -- The Bones of What You Believe
10. Janelle Monae -- The Electric Lady
11. Lotus -- Monks

I did top 11 only because I wanted Lotus on the list.

[Ivan Drago]

3. Childish Gambino -- Because The Internet

This is veeeeery encouraging. :cool:

[D_Davis]

Best new album of the year:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcY5czIND-A

Also happens to be the new standard by which all modern minimal music will be judged.

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/03/208308232/from-a-jazz-trio-a-hypnotic-work-that-hardly-sounds-like-jazz

I chose this one over the Neko Case because I think it pushes the boundaries of music more. The Case album is a super strong and emotional album, full of amazing songs. But I usually want something a little more than just amazing songs. Often I look for things that inspire my own creativity, and this Dawn of MIDI album inspires me more than the Case album. If I was a singer/songwriter, I'm sure it'd be just the opposite.

[Thirdmango]

This is veeeeery encouraging. :cool:

I'm very particular with my Childish songs I like, cause there's a lot I don't like. But I don't think there was a song on that one I didn't like. I'll have to listen to it again and probably will sometime in the next week. But yeah, it's good. Camp level.