Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2013

ALBUMS

Palmbomen - Night Flight Europa
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
Rhye - Woman

TRACKS

Betty Who - Somebody Loves You
Factory Floor - Fall Back
Kate Boy - Northern Lights
Nylo - Sugar on the Floor
The Seven Hats - The Wonder of You
Jakwob ft. Maiday - Fade

let's do this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpOcHsYINoM

^^^Kelly Rowland, "Kisses Down Low"

ALBUMS

Superfamily - All American
Warm Soda - Someone for You
Wave Machines - Pollen
Amateur Best - No Thrills

TRACKS

Vanbot - Hold This Moment
Jagwar Ma - The Throw
The Knife - Full of Fire
Billie Van - On My Knees

ALBUMS

My Bloody Valentine - mbv

albums:

actress, silver cloud ep
shlohmo, laid out ep
jose james, no beginning no end

tracks:

natasha kmeto, pleasure delay

Some stuff I've been digging:

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Jama Ko
Cheick Tidiane Seck - Guerrier
Corsair - Corsair
Samantha Crain - Kid Face
Rhye - Woman
Sorie Kondi - Thogolobea
Nuru Kane - Exile
VA - Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
Art Melody - Wogdog Blues
The Steeldrivers - Hammer Down
Godvya - Alien Heart
Skadika - Frozen Legends

Tracks:

Bimbo ft Juliana - Con Solo Una Sonrisa

(Standard plinky plonk commercial bachata, but I like it; or perhaps, "therefore I like it" (but not really). Better than average vocals, especially some of the harmonies, but then I'm a fan of Dominican merengue diva Juliana. I've read this is actually a remake.)

Also, this new Sakanaction song is pretty decent too.

My fav music of the year so far (excluding the past week which has already given a lot) - http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/44710469406/january-february-2013-favourite-music-round-up

cheers lex!

Nothing terribly leftfield, yet:

Albums
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Dutch Uncles - Out of Touch in the Wild
Pantha du Prince - Elements of Light
Rhye - Woman
Widowspeak - Almanac
Esben and the Witch - Wash the Sins Not Only the Face
Atoms for Peace - Amok
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Autechre - Exai

I'm sure The Knife and AlunaGeorge will be added when they arrive

Tracks:
The Knife - Tooth for an Eye
Hervé ft. Katie Stelmanis of Austra - Save Me
Haim - Falling
Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
Jacque Greene - Quicksand
Austra - Home
D E N A - Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools
Lindstrøm & Todd Terje - Lanzarote

TRACKS

Denitia and Sene - Casanova
Britta Persson - Baby No Name
Freshlyground - Take Me to the Dance
Miss Kittin - Bassline

Albums

Suede - Bloodsports
My Bloody Valentine - M B V
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
Sally Shapiro - Somehwere Else
Phoenix - Bankrupt
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
Rhye - Woman
Edwyn Collins - Understated

Tracks

Vanessa Paradis - Love Song
The Knife - Full of Fire

what a killer month for music:

new fall out boy, iron + wine, paramore, the knife, yeah yeah yeahs, phoenix, kurt vile, vampire weekend about to come out, other stuff that i'm sure i'm forgetting atm

so far for me it's

Sungod, Contackt
Clinic, Free Reign II
Alla, #feedthedragon Vol. 1
Bardo Pond, Rise Above It All EP

Top three so far this year so far for me:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Columbia, 2013)
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (XL, 2013)
Widowspeak – Almanac (Captured Tracks, 2013)

Glad to see some love for that Widowspeak album, I've really been digging that.

top 5 albums so far:
seerauber jenny - loomings
underground lovers - weekend
sulk - graceless
bleeding rainbow - yeah right
mary onettes - hit the waves

sorta feel like the besnards should be in there but i need more time with it

New favorite thing I can't stop listening to, albums edition:

Gabriel Bruce - Love In Arms

What the hell. This has grown on my quite a bit and the video helps:

Shiina Ringo - Ironhanihoheto

I do agree with those who say they wish she spent less time working within the straightjacket that TV/movie theme music tends to impose. But this is good, and I can see why she gets asked to compose theme music so much considering that she see has the hang.

That Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools song is amazing, cheers.

Segue - Pacifica
Pharaohs - Replicant Moods
Slava - Raw Solutions
Ensemble Pearl - st
Function - Incubation

I'm loving your list Damo.

Also almost all of your tracks johnny fever.

Also Sanpaku. DENA is awes but that's actually 2012 no?

I kind of love this thread.

ALBUMS

My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Flaming Lips - The Terror
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the Weekend
Savages - Silence Yourself
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

TRACKS

Low - Just Make It Stop
David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
Disclosure - White Noise
Pulp - After You
King - In the Meantime
Hani Zahra - Cannibal Crime
Jeremy Greenspan and Laurie Spiegel - Drums & Drums & Drums

I have a Spotify playlist to keep track of this:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/3cbpVkp1DOAkcChU6AfROU

This includes the EP of good songs that I made out of the Daft Punk album

This Standish/Carlyon album is MY SHIT so far. Whoa.

Albums

My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - We the Common
Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle - Perils from the Sea
Low - The Invisible Way
David Lang - Death Speaks
Phosphorescent - Muchacho

Reissues (not that you asked)

Peter Jefferies - The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World
Anonymous - Inside the Shadows

This Standish/Carlyon album is MY SHIT so far. Whoa.

i think it's ~half an excellent album

Feel like I'm quite behind this year with music, but some things I liked:

Tracks

Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) feat. A*M*E
Gorgon City - Real feat. Yasmin
TS7 - Heartlight feat. Taylor Fowlis
Disclosure - White Noise feat. Aluna George
Bunji Garlin - Differentology feat. Nigel Rojas
Cakes Da Killa - Goodie Goodies
King - In the Meantime
Young L - Atari
Ace Hood - Bugatti feat. Rick Ross & Future
Young Scooter - Columbia
Rocko - U.O.E.N.O. feat. Future, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa & 2 Chainz (Remix)
Rihanna - Love Song feat. Future (Dj Sliink Remix)
Gucci Mane - Hell Yes
Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Lay Down in Swimming Pools
Droop-E - N The Traffic feat. Nite Jewel & J-Stalin
J. Cole - Power Trip feat. Miguel
Mariah Carey - #Beautiful feat. Miguel
Bookworms & Steve Summers - Unknown Number
Pharaohs - Miraculous Feet feat. Maria Minerva
Omar S - I Just Want (Mixed by Luke Hess)
Isolée - Allowance
Benoit & Sergio - $100 BILL
Rudimental - Spoons

Albums/EPs

DJ Rashad - Rollin'
Steve Summers - The Outermaze
Maxmillion Dunbar - House of Woo
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Paramore - Paramore
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Various - Black Butter Spread Love Vol. 1 ‎and Vol 2.

TRACKS:

Veronica Falls - Teenage
Haim - Falling
Jeri-Jeri - Casamance
Justin Velor - Back to the Source
King - In the Meantime
Jessie Ware - Imagine it was us
The Mary Onettes - Evil Coast
Peter Gordon/Factory Floor - Beachcombing
Laurel Halo - Sunlight on the Faded
Bardo Pond - The Creator has a Master Plan
Dawn Richard - Frequency
Autre Ne Veut - Ego Free Sex Free

ALBUMS

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
Pantha du Prince/Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
L Pierre - The Island Comes True
Follakzoid - II
Barn Owl - V
Moon Wheel - Moon Wheel
Co La - Moody Coup
Cindytalk - A Life is Everywhere

I trust MikoMcha in everything so please tell me about:

Steve Summers - The Outermaze
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

Man, most of the stuff from that list is straight from ILM anyway (and Lex's picks especially).

The Summer EP is my favorite thing from L.I.E.S. this year, along with the Dolo Percussion record. That said, I feel that some of the releases are really work better in a set, and am mostly into Ron Morelli's recent mixes, to be honest.

Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap had a lot written him, so I'm not sure what I could add. Experimental lyricism, I think of it in the wake of Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy. West Coast sort of jazzy vibes. Not usually my sort of thing, but it's a consistent high quality tape, working well around the time I'm drinking my morning coffee.

This track is really remarkable though: Bookworms & Steve Summers - Unknown Number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axzl79tfbcs

Forget who pointed it out on the techno bobbins thread, but would really like to hear the rest of that EP.

surprised tim hasn't heard chance the rapper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nIHZ-0kS4

As much as a time-capsule for myself as a heads-up, my pre summer-solstice addendum:

Lusine - The Waiting Room
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Little Boots - Nocturnes

Tracks:

Studio Killers - All Men Are Pigs
Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Little Boots - Motorway
Young Galaxy - Fall for You
Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead

Yeah that Lusine album is lovely, I should really play it more often.

yeah i'm a fan of lusine too

ALBUMS

1. dawn richard - goldenheart
2. kacey musgraves - same trailer different park
3. brandy clark - brandy clark*
4. eve - lip lock
5. ikonika - aerotropolis
6. the knife - shaking the habitual
7. jade alston - sunday morning: single on a saturday night pt 2
8. omar-s - thank you for letting me be myself
9. fantasia - side effects of you
10. peven everett - king of hearts
11. young galaxy - ultramarine
12. ashley monroe - like a rose
13. pantha du prince & the bell laboratory - elements of light
14. maxmillion dunbar - house of woo

*this is not an actual album. brandy clark is an incredible country singer-songwriter recommended to me by kacey musgraves (who she's written for). her only official release is a 3-track EP on itunes but a couple of months ago there was a downloadable 12-song set on her soundcloud (including the 3 songs on the ep). it's since been taken down but that 12-song set is absolutely brilliant and totally works as an album for me. it hasn't been a great year for albums imo - outside the top 6 we're already getting into "this is a very pleasant and enjoyable effort" rather than "omg my heart and mind and body have been blown away" - but b clark is certainly the latter. there's talk of her on the kacey musgraves thread if you're interested

TRAX (in vague order)

mariah carey ft/ miguel - #beautiful
bunji garlin ft. nigel rojas - differentology
tiffany evans - 143 (i love you)
kelis - jerk ribs
quadron - hey love
mutya keisha siobhan - lay down in swimming pools
jessie ware - imagine it was us
lulu james - closer
stylo g - soundbwoy
shuanise - mercy
krystal klear ft. jenna g - addiction
nyanda - trouble
king - in the meantime
fcl - it's you (mk remix)
gorgon city ft. yasmin - real
demi lovato - heart attack
ciara - wake up, no make-up
beyoncé - grown woman
duke dumont ft. a*m*e - need u (100%) [also the skream mix]
levon vincent - speck's jam
new jackson - sat around here waiting
rudimental ft. mnek & sinead harnett - baby
disclosure ft. alunageorge - white noise
french montana ft. nicki minaj - freaks
mr. beatnick - savannah
sinead harnett - got me
droop-e ft. nite jewel & j. stalin - n the traffic
classixx ft. nancy whang - all you're waiting for
kelly rowland - dirty laundry
denyque - make me believe you

new jackson - sat around here waiting

<3 this song

Wake Up, No Make Up is great.

in no particular order

albums :

bill orcutt & chris corsano - the raw & the cooked
sightings - terribly well
v/a - black butter spread love vol. 1 & 2
om'mas keith - city pulse
young thug - 1017 thug
dawn richard - goldenheart
syclops - in the blink of an eye
lumigraph - nautically inclined
matmos - the marriage of minds
maxmillion dunbar - house of woo

tracks :

young thug - nigeria
mariah ft. miguel - #beautiful
annie - tube stops and lonely hearts
photonz - 1551
krystal klear ft. jenna g - more attraction
nneka - shining star (joe goddard remix)
king - in the meantime
katy b - what love is made of

+ some more stuff i can't recall atm. haven't listened to that much new music, tho.

Yeah, Young Thug. I forgot about that tape until Picacho started showing up on some lists.

i totally meant to put om'mas keith in my albums list

katy b and annie trax, yeah

young thug ABSOLUTELY FKN NOT - i really need to find some good rap recommenders b/c the ilm rap heads have completely lost it

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - We the Common

I didn't know there was a new Thao out! Thanks for the tip - I'm listening to it now. The few other things I've found this year that I've been into:

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Ghost BC - Infestissumam
Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (couldn't get into this on first listen, but it's opened up a bit)

Haha Lex you ever going to respond to me on last.fm? ;P

hang on, i think i missed that, about what? pretty much all my last.fm and facebook notifications go to my spam folder and i never bother checking

Bunch of albums off the top of my head:

Mountains - Centralia
Cosmin TRG - Gordian
M Geddes Gengras - Beyond The Curtain
Colleen - The Weighing of the Heart
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Eugene Carchesio - Circle Music II
Hacker Farm - UHF
Implodes - Recurring Dream
Deerhunter - Monomania
Julia Kent - Character

I sent you another message on last.fm

(re: Lex)

albums

fall out boy - save rock and roll
benoit & sergio - bridge too far
autre nu veut - s/t
f.b.g the movie

trax

little boots - beat beat/motorway
vampire weekend - hannah hunt
sally shapiro - this city's local italo dj has a crush on me
rihanna - pour it up
the-dream - iv play
ciara - body party
juicy j f/ the weeknd - one of those nights
lana del rey - young and beautiful
the national - don't swallow the cap/graceless
avril lavigne - heres to never growing up
young galaxy - pretty boy/new summer

Rhye - Woman

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:58 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

endorse this also

xxxxpost

I love the Brandy Clark 'album'.

It reminds me of Pistol Annies debut album, in the sense that its a series of character studies with lyrics that manage to be witty, heartbreaking, bleak and hopeful.

o kacey musgraves is also def on my list, been a good 1/2 yr, theres more i cant rc right now

The brandy clark "album" is so good it has me transcribing lyrics. And I don't usually do that shit

my top 10 world albums (new)

1. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Jama Ko (Mali)
2. Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa (Mali)
3. Esther Rada - Life Happens EP (Israel)
4. Cheick Tidiane Seck - Guerrier (Mali)
5. The Epichorus - One Bead (New York/Sudan)
6. Arat Kilo - 12 Days in Addis (France)
7. Nuru Kane - Exile (Senegal)
8. Bombino - Nomad (Niger)
9. Jon Madof - Zion80 (New York)
10. Amkoullel - Afrique Soleil (Mali)

my top 10 world albums (reissues)

1. Harafin So - Bollywood Inspired Film Music from Hausa Nigeria (Nigeria)
2. Blind Musical Flames - Flames Morale (Sierra Leone)
3. Orchestra Super Mazembe - Mazembe @ 45rpm, Vol. 1 (Kenya)
4. C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Funky Highlife (Ghana)
5. Dieuf-Dieul De Thies - Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 (Senegal)
6. Mammane Sani et son Orgue - La Musique Electronique du Niger (Niger)
7. Dur-Dur Band - Volume 5 (Somalia)
8. Orchestre National de Mauritanie - Orchestre National de Mauritanie (Mauritania/West Africa)
9. Various Artists - Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970's & 80's (Kenya)
10. Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco (Morocco)

I know, its full of quotable lines:

'First he told her that her hair looked nice / Promised he was gonna leave his wife / Yeah, two more lies / She didn't care'
'There's no crime of fashion worth a crime of passion'
'What will keep me out of heaven / Will take me there tonight'

Just an amazing album lyrically
'

Just Like Him KILLS me

"They say love's like coming home / and I came from a broken one / so why am I surprised you're always leaving"
"I used to say that I'd be damned / 'fore I'd ever fall in love with a man / like the one / mama wasted her youth on"

And the way Hungover morphs from cycle of drudgery to personal blossoming

"She could steal most anyone's man / this'd be a real good time to hold my hand" is p great too

i don't know how many of those are on spotify but i made two playlists if anyone is interested xxxp to myself:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/74Cwr5M9GAUuh5nD7wBnbs (reissues list)
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/56xI7bi39W89b2OCIK0D9R (new world list)

xpost

When I mentioned hopeful lyrics in an earlier post 'Hungover' was the song i was thinking of. I love the way it manages in three minutes to give a perfectly rounded description of the life of living with an addict and also manages to display how the character is able to grow and escape while their partner stagnates.

'Crazy Women' is another favorite. Primarily for the way in which it skewers the idea of a man portraying himself as an innocent victim refusing to take any responsibility for his actions. Also 'they hauled her off in high-heels and handcuffs' is a terrific line.

lovin the koze album! thanks sanpaku

Almost forgot, Kate Boy's "The Way We Are". A rhythmically propulsive Knife-like earworm.

My top 5 of the year so far
1. the Knife - Shaking The Habitual
2. When Saints Go Machine - Infinity Pool
3. Autechre - Exai
4. Daft Punk - RAM
5. Hacker Farm - UHF

EPs
DJ Rashad - Rollin'
East India Youth - Hostel

Songs

Cassie feat. Jeremih - Sound of Love
Stylo G - Soundbwoy
Charli XCX - Take My Hand
Dawn Richard - Gleaux
Friction & Skream feat. Scrufizzer, P Money & Riko Dan - Kingpin
DJ Q feat. Louise Williams - Trust Again
Kelly Rowland - Kisses Down Low
French Montana feat. Nicki Minaj - Freaks
Kahn feat. Flow Dan - Badman City
Ciara - Wake Up, No Make-Up
Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La
Toddla T Sound - Worst Enemy
Kingdom feat. Kelela - Bank Head
Roska feat. Jamie George - Secret Love

Tracks

Wen - Nightcrawler
Helix - Whoosh Ice Dispenser
DJ Rashad - Let It Go
Walton - Homage
Pev & Kowton - Raw Code
Mumdance & Logos - Drum Boss

Not strictly 2013 but released this year

P Jam - Arizona Skyz
Instra:Mental & dBridge - White Snares
DJ Eastwood - U Ain't Ready (Untold 2010 Remix)
Dizzee Rascal x Zomby - Stand Up Aquafresh (Oneman Edit)

Would be up there if it wasn't released 30 Dec 2012

Matrix & Futurebound feat. Baby Blue - Magnetic Eyes

the new Boards of Canada is going on my list when it comes out

Welcome to Japan - The Strokes is gonna get overlooked because it's 2013 and who wants to listen to The Strokes?

also The Strokes suck in general

Hey, hey now. In 2001 they saved rock n roll, what have you done for rock n roll lately?

But yeah, song's good in the particular.

guys, not being funny, yeah, but i was saying they sucked even in 2001? just sayin'!

This Deafheaven album is like, incredible. By far the best metal album since Aesthetica (and yeah, I know, no need to bother discussing it)

Other than that I've loved stuff like Anxiety and Modern Vampires of the City and Fly Zone. It's been a really good year so far.

An incredible year so far, but particularly for comebacks.

Tracks:

Sakanaction - Music
Shiina Ringo - Irohanihoheto
Katy B - What Love Is Made Of
Naughty Boy - La La La*
Bimbo ft. Juliana - Con Solo Una Sonrisa

There must be something else. Bunch of UK dance/dance pop stuff that I like more than not, but not quite enough to endorse.

*This could get annoying before the year is up.

there's a couple of the high profile comeback records I haven't heard, and a couple I have, but nothing feels better in 2013 than loving a new Clinic album (even if it's actually "new" ie a remix album)

Between all the great UK dance pop (most of which apparently mostly hadn't quite hit me last time I posted to this thread, although it had my attention) and the emergence of Mohammed Assaf via Arab Idol, this year suddenly looks very good to me, musically. Plus there are a bunch of albums, released or forthcoming,that I want to hear.

I've still yet to hear the Hacker Farm record. I'll have to track it down somehow.

It's well worth it. A good contender to the BoC album.

Wildlife! - Roxy Reboot

Just found this tonight. Short description from bandcamp: "[Wildlife!] tracked down legendary figures from the UK’s first punk rock movement to reinterpret their favourite reggae classics, while simlutaneously collaborating with the forefront of Jamaica's dancehall avant-garde, to reinterpret influential punk classics and forgotten gems."

The first 4 tracks are punk dudes working with Wildlife! on reggae tracks that had been covered by punk bands in the 70s. The second 4 tracks are covers of 70s punk originals with contemporary dancehall people. The version of "Oh Bondage Up Yours" in particular is crazy good.

http://itswildlife.bandcamp.com/album/roxy-reboot

Wow, looks cool JF

Oh yes what I have heard of that sounds amazing!

purchased.

There are really just too many to mention now, but most of them have probably already been mentioned by the dance crew. However, I have to just say:

Lulu James - Closer

Where did this come from? Where is all this stuff coming from?

Step by Step is great too/was great on first listen.

I really can't be arsed to list 'em all yet. There's been a lot of stuff I've heard, and I'm still sifting through things and constantly re-arranging my lists and stuff.

I love "Closer". It's somewhere in my top 5 singles of the year so far. xp

albumz of 2013 so far for me

besnard lakes - until in excess, imperceptible ufo
blank realm - go easy
buke & gase - general dome
deerhunter - monomania
dirty beaches - drifters/love is the devil
eat skull - III
flaming lips - the terror
iceage - you're nothing
the men - new moon
nosaj thing - home
thee oh sees - floating coffin
parquet courts - light up gold
pissed jeans - honeys
prodigy & alchemist - albert einstein
pure x - crawling up the stairs
tera melos - x'ed out
vampy weekend - mvotc
warm soda - someone for you

albums:
Jagwar Ma - Howlin'

that is all.

not in any order:

primal scream - more light
boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest
bevis frond - white numbers
suede - bloodsports
besnard lakes - until in excess
california x - s/t
dj koze - amygdala
hot lunch - s/t
juan atkins/moritz von oswald - borderland
kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
the men - new moon
mount kimbie - cold spring
night marchers - allez allez
qotsa - like clockwork
sweet talk - pickup lines
white fence - cyclops reap
william tyler - impossible truth

also enjoyed savages, ice age, shannon and the clams, mikal cronin, zeitgeber, these new puritans, nick cave, steve mason...and a few others

this is my favorite individual track of 2013 right this second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFl3Mr66Dk

albums:
Jagwar Ma - Howlin'

that is all.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, June 24, 2013 9:04 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Interesting. I find that album quite bland, fwiw.

I love it, except "Come Save Me" has a totally different feel and sort of stops the momentum right in the middle of the record. They should've left it off.

Probably my favourite albums so far:

Mountains - Centralia
Implodes - Recurring Dream
Justin Walter - Lullabies & Nightmares
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Quicksails - Mayville Dream
Kwaidan - Make All The Hell Of Dark Metal Bright
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Sightings - Terribly Well
Cosmin TRG - Gordian
M Geddes Gengras - Beyond The Curtain
Colleen - The Weighing of the Heart
Eugene Carchesio - Circle Music II
Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
Hacker Farm - UHF

Heaps of other stuff too that I've enjoyed, plus there's a whole bunch of other things that I'm super-excited to hear (some not yet released): John Roberts, Oneohtrix Point Never, Julianna Barwick, Stellar Om Source, Richard Youngs, Julia Holter, Duane Pitre

More people definitely need to get on board with that Secret Circuit album, could see it appealing to folks who were into the Blondes or Talabot albums from last year. Star-kissed balearica but with an acid edge to it, quite Gavin & Delia I suppose.

That Wildlife! Roxy Reboot thing JF posted upthread is great. The mechanised footwork version of Oh Bondage, Up Yours is especially cool. Everyone get a copy. NOW!

ALBUMS (in no order)*
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In The Devils Time
Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
David Bowie - The Next Day
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Primal Scream - More Light
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
Savages - Silence Yourself
Kvelertak - Meir
No Joy - Wait To Pleasure
Suede - Bloodsports
The Deer Tracks - The Archer Trilogy, Pt. 3
Girls Names - The New Life
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic

*(note: these are the albums I've been playing the very most, there are several albums this year that may grow on me further).

TRACKS (in no order)
Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire
Steve Mason - Fight Them Back
Bleached - When I Was Yours
Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
David Bowie - If You Can See Me
The Knife - Without You My Life Would Be Boring
Primal Scream - Turn Each Other Inside Out
Depeche Mode - Secret To The End
Wire - Adore Your Island
Coliseum - Love Under Will
Everything Everything - Duet
Veronica Falls - Teenage
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Our System
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Invisible Friend
Big Deal - Swapping Spit
Jacco Gardner - Clear The Air
Savages - She Will
Kvelertak - Bruane Brenn
Mazes - Bodies
No Joy - Hare Tarot Lies
Suede - Snowblind
ADULT. - Heartbreak
Kanye West - I'm In It
British Sea Power - K Hole
Lusine - Panoramic
The Deer Tracks - Astral Ship
Dutch Uncles - Fester
Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression
The Flaming Lips - You Lust
Atoms For Peace - Judge, Jury & Executioner
Hookworms - Form and Function
Black Sabbath - Loner
Wild Nothing - Data World
Deafheaven - Dream House

A$AP Rocky - LONG.LIVE.A$AP
ASG - Blood Drive
Bardo Pond - Rise Above It All
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Clinic - Free Reign II
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Colleen - The Weighing of the Heart
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Deerhunter - Monomania
Ghost - Infestissumam (not the GOAT i first thought, but at least half that)
Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion
Moon Duo - Circles Remixed
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
Savages - Silence Yourself
Pete Swanson - Punk Authority EP
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control

Parquet Courts would be on here too, but I think that came out last year.

Still need to hear lots of stuff: Eat Skull, William Tyler, Sightings, etc.

haven't heard any tracks, i don't think

Parquet Courts would be on here too, but I think that came out last year.

It did, but it got reissued this year on a bigger label and it counts imo.

That Wildlife! Roxy Reboot thing JF posted upthread is great.

I'm glad you and D.A.M. think so. But there's only three of us so far.

i hadn't heard of it til april or thereabouts, so i have to agree

re: parquet courts

yeah parquet courts was reissued with a much wider release in 2013 so i think it's fair game, no one really heard it in 2012

i like that milk music album too. this is unfair but watching a video of them play live made me like them a little less, their singer has a doofy little ponytail. william tyler album is great, should maybe be on my list too.

Mid-year review I guess/no order:

Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen
Pantha du Prince/The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
Super Jam Presents Upper Layer Cruisers - Rush Consequence
Follakzoid - II
Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
Barn Owl - V
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Cindytalk - A Life Is Everywhere
Jeri-Jeri - 800% Ndagga
Slow Machete - Evening Dust Choir
Roland P. Young - Mystiphonic
Moon Wheel - Moon Wheel
Aisha Devi - Aura 4 Everyone EP

JF - if someone had told me there was a footwork version of an X-Ray Spex song sung by a dancehall artist and it wasn't to be a track of the year, I wouldn't have believed them. This is total dog latin-bait.

^ otm, thanks johnny

Follakzoid - II

Must remember to check this out.

Checking out Go Easy by Blank Realm. They didn't make an impression on me before but I'm really digging this.
Love the Fleetwood Mac riff appropriation on "Cleaning up my mess."

I'll put together a more comprehensive list once I've gotten the chance to give second and third listens to some things I'm on the fence about, but for now Laura Marling's Once I Was an Eagle and Tegan and Sara's Heartthrob are looking like my half-year faves. FIDLAR's self-titled album is probably my favourite album of 2013 that nobody else is talking about.

if someone had told me there was a footwork version of an X-Ray Spex song sung by a dancehall artist and it wasn't to be a track of the year, I wouldn't have believed them.

I'm gonna campaign the fuck out of this in December/January for our poll.

I hope everyone is getting up on the These New Puritans album

i keep trying, but it sounds like a crystal swan on a freshly-dusted mantlepiece

it's a lot to take all at once but "organ eternal" is fantastic

more favorites since the last time i posted to this thread:

airhead, for years
gold panda, half of where you live
deafheaven, sunbather
zebra katz, DRKLNG
koreless, yugen

http://i.imgur.com/xZoRwU5.jpg

What are some of those JF? I recognise Savages, Tegan & Sera, Kanye, WSGM (high five for including that) Wildlife! and Denitia and Sene.

bottom left is standish/carlyon

top left is gabriel bruce by love in arms

I guess I was also hoping he would give brief descriptions too as I don't know what those others are and JF usually has pretty great taste.

I like the artwork of that one that's third on the top row.

Gabriel Bruce - Love In Arms: http://spoti.fi/14nn11A
Denitia and Sene - His and Hers: http://spoti.fi/WBmG91
Fielded - Ninety Thirty Thirty: http://bit.ly/YbEWa5
Jagwar Ma - Howlin: http://spoti.fi/13xCWsp
Lissi Dancefloor Disaster - Waves: http://spoti.fi/14nnnFr
Los Colognes - Working Together: http://bit.ly/15F8VZd
Rebeka - Hellada: http://spoti.fi/14nnxwz
Savages - Silence Yourself: http://spoti.fi/18rOeQq
Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes: http://spoti.fi/12DiLqu
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob: http://spoti.fi/14k1vLC
Kanye West - Yeezus: http://spoti.fi/11Ft2Dx
When Saints Go Machine - Infinity Pool: http://spoti.fi/14nGoaw
Wildlife! - Roxy Reboot: http://spoti.fi/13npoDL

Brain too fried atm for any descriptions.

my top 20 albums so far, in rough order

Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Toro y Moi - Anything in Return
Kanye West - Yeezus
Mykki Blanco - Betty Rubble: The Initiation
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Katy Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton
Cakes da Killa - The Eulogy
Quadron - Avalanche
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Clipping - Midcity
Run the Jewels - s/t
Rhye - Woman
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Allá - Feed the Dragon, Vol. 1
Classix - Hanging Gardens
Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience
Lil B - 100% Gutta
Problem & Iamsu! - Million Dollar Afro
Migos - Y.R.N.
Lady - s/t

Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes: http://spoti.fi/12DiLqu

Listened to this because I've noticed JF always has good taste, and I really like this, very Junior Boys on 4AD.

and singles

Ciara - Body Party
Kelly Rowland - Kisses Down Low
Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
Katy Got Bandz f/ King Louie - Pop Out
Robin Thicke f/ Pharrell & T.I. - Blurred Lines
Mariah Carey f/ Miguel - Beautiful
Kingdom f/ Kelela - Bank Head
Daft Punk f/ Pharrell - Get Lucky
The-Dream - IV Play
Future f/ Casino - Karate Chop
Young Jeezy f/ 2 Chainz - R.I.P.
DJ Rashad - Let It Go
Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
Janelle Monae f/ Erykah Badu - Q.U.E.E.N.
The Juan Maclean - You Are My Destiny
Duke Dumont f/ A*M*E - Need U (100%)
Shlohmo f/ Jeremih - Bo Peep (Do U Right)
Droop-E f/ J. Stalin - N the Traffic
Walter Ego - Baby Benz
King - In the Meantime

are there any big 2013 spotify playlists going around ilx? i wld really appreciate that rn

Presume various people have their own personal lists - this is mine for tracks. Not sure about big lists though.

well i made a collaborative list 4 ilm if y'all want to add to it, i like that a lot more than waiting for year-end nominations and trying to listen to 3000 songs in a day

oops here http://open.spotify.com/user/zachlyon/playlist/0exJyT8b15MNwuDixTSMFZ

went and added the only 3 songs i like this year!

The Sevyn Streeter track is new to me, but I'm into it.

Cool! I added my bunch of tracks to the playlist, hope that's ok.

that's the idea!

added the two kendrick singles from this year even tho everyone heard them last year cause i like them w/e

albums this year have been a really weird time. been having trouble settling on an order

something like:

paramore: paramore
fall out boy: save rock and roll
kacey musgraves: same trailer, different park
daft punk: random access memories
owel: owel
nice hooves: nice hooves
tegan and sara: heartthrob
lusine: the waiting room
vampire weekend: modern vampires of the city
allison weiss: say what you mean
sigur ros: kveikur
jimmy eat world: damage
young galaxy: ultramarine
amy grant: how mercy looks from here
momoiro clover z: 5th dimension
the national: trouble will find me
om'mas keith: city pulse
justin timberlake: the 20/20 experience
charli xcx: true romance
queens of the stone age: ...like clockwork
classixx: hanging gardens
portal: vexovoid
bilal: a love surreal
darkthrone: the underground resistance
the appleseed cast: illumination ritual
the strokes: comedown machine
wayne shorter: without a net
laura stevenson: wheel
coheed and cambria: the afterman

Just coming to the realisation that I love the These New Puritans album after having difficulty with their previous one. It feels like this is another piece to a wider puzzle of a stylistic continuum that seems to be forming over the las few years - it sits happily on my shelf in among these other grand, dark, sweeping, large-scale ever-so-slightly proggy albums like The Seer, Shaking The Habitual, Bish Bosch, Heartland and a number of other unclassifiable records I've enjoyed in recent(ish) times.

(OT: If I see that shirtless old man in the hat banner ad again, I'm going to choke on my own vomit.)

Fists: Phantasm, about which I know next to nothing. Spotify, correctly, suggested it based on a very tenuous connection so here's to computer intuition. Pixies as a departure point, girl singer mostly, little bit of Fall but only incidentally. Neat and varied stuff.

club 8 - 'above the city' (for fans of saint etienne's latest)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6qtjvjrdI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-PBUUZSLhY

yeah the club 8 album is their best and probably the main dude's best out of all his proj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2VNzigqjE

Just heard this but I'm pretty sure of it and trust my response more knowing this is Grupo Niche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05_Sw3vnxM

Oh!

This is what it's supposed to sound like.

(give or take some throwback synth schmaltz, but it's really okay here because the whole thing is so good)

Oops. Sorry. That second post was meant for the Afro-Latin rolling thread. :(

Too many tabs open.

Albums:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Troller - s/t *
Stara Rzeka - Cień Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem *
Moderat - II
FunkyStepz - Backlog
Kingdom - Vertical XL
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Steve Moore - Horror Business
Parisian - Daul Kim EP
Föllakzoid - II
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
John Roberts - Fences
FIDLAR - s/t

* These two have been particularly amazing over the last week.

ALBUMS:

Grupo Niche - Tocando el Cielo con las Manos
Disclosure - Settle

All I've seemed to be listening to lately is weird atonal noize shit. Anyone recommend an antidote?

New Julianna Barwick and Julia Holter albums are out and less atonal.

new Dawn Richard song "Judith" is super gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEMZ_l_SME

wow, that's amazing, who produced it?

https://twitter.com/heiscronos/status/369572145090666496

ALBUMS

Haim - Days Are Gone obvs

Obvs.

Bout time for an autumnal time capsule (adding to spring and summer faves). I think these all came out in 2013.

Albums
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
Emika - Dva
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Juliana Barwick - Nepenthe
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Lulu Rouge - The Song is in the Drum
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

Strangely unmoved by: Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, Savages, These New Puritans, Goldfrapp, Chelsea Wolfe, Austra

Tracks
Delorean - Destitute Time (feat Glasser)
RAC - Let Go (feat Kele & MNDR)
Haim - Falling (Psychemagik Remix)
Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
MØ - XXX 88
Kate Boy - The Way We Are (Bixel Boys remix)
London Grammar - Metal & Dust

That Melt Yourself Down album is dope.

kurt vile, mbv, fuzz, Bill Callahan.

Cuushe, Mind Over Mirrors, Jessy Lanza, Joanna Gruesome, Donato Dozzy, Sons of Kemet. Haim obvs.

love the new Shigeto record.

and FKA Twigs - EP2

This is my ongoing faves of 2013 playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/naamme/playlist/5FuOaEbPtXhNpfYA6ch6QV but it's missing a few things that aren't on Spotify, like STNNNG and Bill Callahan.

http://open.spotify.com/user/zachlyon/playlist/0exJyT8b15MNwuDixTSMFZ ADD THEM HERE PPL

Daniel Menche

Matana Roberts!

I need to give Telemachus' album "In The Evening" a shout-out. psychedelic hip hop in the vein of dj shadow and edan. stuff that ILM (or even myself) dont usually tend to seek out but its a cracker.

So far

My tracks:
http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/5ss3fXGKYb2d99ljOSqJQS

My albums:
http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/4gwisTVK71MY2fGKQqqBZv

Saw my first EOY list today: http://prettymuchamazing.com/feature/best-albums-2013

I guess there will be a thread at some point but I'm not going to start it just for prettymuchamazing.com's crappy top 40.

Mid-October seems a bit early for that sort of thing.

There's a link to that feature elsewhere on the site that calls it a "rolling list" that's been "updated for the fall." So maybe it's a work in progress that was started a while ago to generate pageviews from searches for "best albums of 2013."

Shit, I've had Drake - 'hold on we're going home' stuck on my head for the past three days. Not sure if it makes it one of my favorite tracks of the year but it's a hard to ignore it.

i heard that drake song on an adult contemporary station earlier today and it fit in kinda perfectly. kinda psyched for 2 years from now when they give it some spins at the grocery store.

Where is the love for the Matmos album? That shit is off the hook!

^^^am listening to this right now!! and yes it is

Jandek's THE SONG OF MORGAN is my favorite album of the year. It's a nine-CD boxset of hour-long solo piano "nocturnes" and it is the true followup to Gonzales' SOLO PIANO album for all of us who were underwhelmed by SOLO PIANO II.

thought that was a joke, it was not

Me too. Wow.

Really digging this Perfect Pussy EP. Unhinged rock vibes with heavily fuzzed out female vocals. Really good stuff.

i need more resources. i feel like my own personal top 100 songs of the year list could use some improvement.

ooh the spotify playlist zachlyon posted above looks good, think i'll start listening to that soon.

First legit EOY list? http://www.roughtrade.com/aoty2013

xp yeah that playlist is dope

Liars "I Saw You from the Lifeboat"

Is it a legitimate list if the top 10 are all Rough Trade exclusives?

Real thread for this now: Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

"RT exclusives" seem to involve tacking a CD of live cuts/B-sides on to the main release - unclear whether a group/label that didn't play ball would get bumped out of the top 10.

hey I just realized no one seems to be mentioning "Colonized" by Paula Temple, which bangs pretty fucking hard IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ_iP0Cc8co

I've kind of known for a while that my top album of the year is going to be "Images Du Futur" by Suuns. Surprised that a knock-off band (coughCliniccough) could come up with something so great, but there you go. Takes the Clinic/Radiohead overlap thing and then nails the hooks and the production. Been playing it regularly all year and still finding neat little details.

top ten albums:

kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
mbv - mbv
nick cave - push the sky away
howe gelb - the coincidentalist
mark kozelek & desertshore - s/t
israel nash gripka - israel nash's rain plans
atoms for peace - amok
kt tunstall - invisible empire // crescent moon
julia holter - loud city song
pere ubu - lady from shanghai

Albums:

Kanye West - Yeezus
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
The Embassy - Sweet Sensations
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Darkside - Psychic
Odisee - The Beauty In All
Danny Brown - Old
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Haim - Days Are Gone

14 recordings i liked a whole lot

Kanye West, Yeezus
Jose James, No Beginning No End
Shlohmo, Laid Out EP
Airhead, For Years
Forest Swords, Engravings
Shigeto, No Better Time Than Now
Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap
FKA Twigs, EP2
Kelela, Cut 4 Me
milo, things that happen at day
milo, things that happen at night
Koreless, Yugen EP
DJ Rashad, Double Cup
Nicholas Jaar, Boiler Room mix

anyone has some recommendations of this year's "indie-friendly"/accessible songs for the dancefloor? something like john talabot, osborne, todd terje, or maybe a remix of a well known indie song. thanks in advance.

classixx - "hanging gardens" (samples fleetwood mac)

I think noise and broad-minded electronic music fans should try Matthew Shipp/Guillermo Brown's Telephone Popcorn, though I'm not sure how all the non-acoustic sounds are actually being produced.

Oops, look like this was originally released in 2008 (like anyone heard it).

Lusine is spans the indie / dancefloor divide as well.

I quite liked this Chvrches remix by the reliable Moon Boots.

thank you, I hope they keep coming. I might as well contribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZxx01fpqA&feature=youtu.be

The solar bears album is a pretty solid electronic music for indie ppl type of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwf31pKvGc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUnMmUwsG0g

albums (including EPs):

• burial -- truant/rough sleeper
• psychic -- darkside
• deerhunter -- monomania
• dirty beaches -- drifters/love is the devil
• grant hart -- the argument
• kanye west -- yeezus
• tim hecker -- virgins
• various artists -- livity sound

• dopplereffekt -- tetrahymena
• killa mosquito -- computer
• movement -- us
• paul st. hilaire -- nah ina it
• vatican shadow -- remember your black day
• porches -- franklin the flirt
• neneh cherry -- blank project (technically released next year, but made available on soundcloud now)
• low -- if i could just make it stop
• acid arab -- theme
• disclosure -- when a fire starts to burn
• ben khan -- drive, part I
• machinedrum -- gunshotta
• manic street preachers and richard hawley -- rewind the film
• say lou lou -- julian
• thundercat -- lotus and the jondy
• stephen encinas -- disco illusion (apparently recorded in '79, but never released 'till now)

The solar bears album is a pretty solid electronic music for indie ppl type of thing.

― oppet, Friday, November 29, 2013 9:25 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not dancefloor friendly i'm afraid. i was asked to spin some songs in this high school party, so yeah

Had completely forgotten about that Burial release this year.

it was released just before Christmas last year..

i think that's technically true, but the ep should be eligible in one or the other year-end polls. ilx's year-end roundup of polls is pretty comprehensive, and it shows truant/rough sleeper was in none of them (other burial releases from 2012 -- e.g., the kindred ep; the collaborations with four tet -- were in many of the polls). and i'm pretty sure it's omission from 2012 polls wasn't because critics disliked it (metacritic has it at 88 on 17 reviews. also, it's brilliant and a real step forward.

so i mean it's fair game for inclusion in 2013 lists, i think.

yeah, i love it. i'd include it in a 'best of 2012' list, however. Seems hasty to be making a definitive/final list, even in December... there are a number of under-the-radar releases we've yet to hear and digest.

like britney

mine list isn't definitive for me, really (and no-one would care either way). i just stayed away from music much of the year, and i'm now catching up, somewhat.

a quick snapshot:

Alla, Feed the Dragon Vol. 1
Stara Rzeka, Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO, In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
NYPC, NYPC
Bardo Pond, Peace on Venus
Pinkish Black, Razed to the Ground
Jute Gyte, Discontinuities
Le1f, Tree House
Melt-Banana, fetch
Clinic, Free Reign II
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, UZU
Follakzoid, II
Sungod, Kontackt
Teeth of the Sea, Master
Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno, Doobie Wonderland
Toro Y Moi, Anything in Return
Jade Alston, Sunday Morning: Single on a Saturday Night pt. 2
Natasha Kmeto, Crisis
MIA, Matangi
Food Pyramid, Ecstasy and Refreshment
Brute Heart, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

I like the number 12 right now

Albums:
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Haim - Days Are Gone
Kanye West - Yeezus
Toro y Moi - Anything in Return
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
M.I.A. - Matangi
Quadron - Avalanche
Mykki Blanco - Betty Rubble: The Initiation
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Cakes da Killa - The Eulogy

Singles:
Ciara - Body Party
Migos - Versace
Kingdom f/ Kelela - Bank Head
Katie Got Bandz f/ King Louie - Pop Out
TT the Artist - Pussy Ate
Mariah Carey f/ Miguel - #Beautiful
Rihanna - Pour It Up
Fantasia f/ Kelly Rowland & Missy Elliott - Without Me
Kelly Rowland - Kisses Down Low
A$AP Ferg f/ A$AP Rocky - Shabba
Prince - Breakfast Can Wait
Friends - The Way

albums:

the 1975 the 1975
paramore paramore
gorguts colored sand
fall out boy save rock and roll
perfume level 3
carcass surgical steel
kt tunstall invisible empire // crescent moon
kacey musgraves same trailer, different park
tegan and sara heartthrob
owel owel
subrosa more constant than the gods
in solitude sister
afi burials
tricot the
haim days are gone
swearin' surfing strange
amel larrieux ice cream everyday
allison weiss say what you mean
caitlin rose the stand-in
brandy clark 12 stories
aeternus ...and the seventh his soul detesteth
ariana grande yours truly
bottomless pit shade perennial
nice hooves nice hooves
summoning old mornings dawn
kevin devine and the goddamn band bubblegum
mansions: doom loop
laura stevenson: wheel

tracks:
rudimental/mnek/sinead harnett "baby"
fall out boy "alone together"
paramore "still into you"
zedd/foxes "clarity"
chvrches "gun"
the killers "shot at the night"
sky ferreira "you're not the one"
kyary pamyu pamyu "invader invader"
sevyn streeter "it won't stop"
mariah/miguel "#beautiful"
jessie ware "imagine it was us"
the naked and famous "hearts like ours"
charli xcx "take my hand"
the 1975 "chocolate"
kanye west "bound 2"
janelle monae/miguel "primetime"
demi lovato "heart attack"
katy perry "roar"
k michelle "VSOP"

i don't have a tracks list yet. here's albums and EPs.

1) Pissed Jeans - Honeys
2) Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
3) Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady
4) Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy
5) V/A - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America 1950-1990
6) Factory Floor - Factory Floor
7) Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
8) Holydrug Couple - Noctuary
9) Charlemagne Palestine + Z'ev - Rubhitbangklanghear/Rubhitbangklangear
10) William Winant - Five American Percussion Pieces
11) Steve Hauschildt - S/H
12) Astral Social Club - Electric Yep
13) Glasser - Interiors
14) Tod Dockstader - Electronic Vol. 2
15) Ekin Fil - Ekin Fil
16) Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
17) Sir Richard Bishop - Mystery Guild
18) David Van Tieghem x Ten - FRKWYS Vol. 10: David Van Tieghem x Ten - Fits & Starts
19) Tim Hecker - Virgins
20) NYMPH - New Millennium Prayer
21) Autechre - Exai
22) M.I.A. - Matangi
23) Noveller - No Dreams
24) Melt-Banana - Fetch
25) Iasos - Celestial Soul Portrait
26) Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
27) The Men - New Moon
28) My Bloody Valentine - m b v
29) ADULT. - The Way Things Fall
30) Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
31) Master Musicians of Bukkake - Far West
32) Barn Owl - V
33) Forest Swords - Engravings
34) Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
35) Body/Head - Coming Apart
36) Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
37) Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
38) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
39) Lubomyr Melnyk - Three Solo Pieces
40) William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who is William Onyeabor?
41) Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
42) DJ Koze - Amygdala
43) Wooden Shjips - Back to Land
44) Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai
45) Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
46) Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
47) Pop. 1280 - Imps of Perversion
48) Kanye West - Yeezus
49) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
50) Haim - Days Are Gone
51) Stellar OM Source - Joy One Mile
52) Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
53) Psychic Ills - One Track Mind
54) Laraaji - Celestial Music 1978-2011
55) Zola Jesus - Versions
56) Vum - Psychotropic Jukebox

EPs:

1) The Dead C/Rangda - The Dead C Vs. Rangda
2) Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke
3) John Foxx and The Belbury Circle - Empty Avenues

shit, i forgot the bill orcutt/chris corsano album. that would be around #35.

somehow i deleted matangi from my list but it's somewhere in the top ten

Haven't done one of these for a while...

Tim Hecker - Virgins
Justin Walter - Lullabies & Nightmares
Mountains - Centralia
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
Karen Gwyer - Needs Continuum
Implodes - Recurring Dream
Kwaidan - Make All The Hell Of Dark Metal Bright
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Spaces Vol. 1
Savages - Silence Yourself
Black Deer - Black Deer
Lee Noble - Ruiner
Holden - The Inheritors
M Geddes Gengras - Beyond The Curtain
Sightings - Terribly Well
Quicksails - Mayville Dream
Deerhunter - Monomania

get bent, there is some wirey stuff I hadn't heard about on your list that I'd like to check out so thanks.

Things are still percolating so I don't have a top 10 per se, but here are 10 albums I loved this year (unordered)

My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Fantasia - Side Effects of You
Savages - Silence Yourself
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels (or should this be credited as Killer Mike and El-P?)
M.I.A. - Matangi
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Wax Idols - Discipline & Desire
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady

Some interesting stuff on these lists that I've haven't heard of. I feel like I've got tons of catching up to do for music this year!

Friends - The Way

― when a real whiney hold you down, you sposed to drown (The Reverend), Sunday, December 1, 2013 5:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I hope these guys can pull together for a second album, as half the band from their debut has already split. "Home", "Friend Crush", and "I'm His Girl" are all great ideas for pop songs, fourth-wave feminism meets updated disco beat (or something like that) set in some future time and place we all wish were happening now. The single is promising, but I want more!

This is all I have for albums and I'm going to save my tracks for the ILM poll. I might delete a couple of these albums when I vote, out of political spite, depending on how angry I'm feeling:

Matthew Shipp – Piano Sutras
HAIM – Days Are Gone
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan – UZU
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb – Roadsides
Grupo Niche – Tocando el Cielo con las Manos

Decided I really didn't like the Oneohtrix Point Never.

laurel halo - chance of rain
chance the rapper - acid rap
the underachievers - indigoism
dedalus_beuger_frey (on potlatch)
cornford/rodgers - boring embroidery
michael pisaro - the punishment of the tribe...
lambkin/lescalleet - photographs (?) (still deliberating)
oneohtrix point never - r + 7 (novelty shit, sounds like GTA V)
eva-marie houben: piano music
autechre - exai/l-event

anticipating:

mick turner - don't tell the driver
taku sugimoto/moe kamura - live in saritote
new burial ep

2013 Albums/EPs I've liked recently:

Laura Groves - Thinking About Thinking
Machinedrum - Vapor City
CFCF - Music for Objects
Ex-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars Three
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Sapphire Slows - Allegoria
Saada Bonaire - Saada Bonaire
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Anthroprophh - Anthroprophh
Kemialliset Ystävät - Kultaista Kaupunkia EtsimässäI
V/A - Santa's Christmas Funk and Soul Party Volume 2

everyone owes it to themselves to listen through the Fantasia album at least once; to my ears it's unambiguously the best R&B release of the year

really dig that sapphire slows album, surprised it hasn't been getting more props

interesting lists from seandalai and nickb... is that patrick cowley thing the instrumental comp the honey soundsystem guys put out?

yep. it's good. that Saada Bonaire is great too.

anyone have some genre specific lists? it's hard to look through a bunch of names i don't recognize and try to figure out what they sound like

saada bonaire YES, many thx for the rec

i still have a lot of catching up to do this year, but so far i've been digging:

peter gordon and factory floor - beachcombing / c-side
cfcf - music for objects
special request - soul music
maxmillion dunbar - house of woo
sapphire slows - allegoria
v/a - gerd janson presents music for autobahns
v/a - i am the center: private issue new age music in america (1950-1990)
holden - the inheritors
black deer - s/t
daniel avery - drone logic
william onyeabor - world psychedelic classics 5: who is william onyeabor?
darkside - psychic
blondes - swisher

not much that we haven't seen elsewhere in this thread but i thought i'd share regardless. there's a good chance that the secret circuit, saada bonaire, and pharaohs records will make it on the list once i've digested things a bit more

quality drops off in the second half of the Saada Bonaire imo but the first half is really good

xp cosign pretty much everything on that list!

i guess there's a new black deer record out? err "mini-album"

everyone owes it to themselves to listen through the Fantasia album at least once; to my ears it's unambiguously the best R&B release of the year

― deX! (DJP)

I couldn't really get into this and I loved her last album. Maybe I need to give it another go.

quality drops off in the second half of the Saada Bonaire imo but the first half is really good

Just listening to it now and I agree. That first half is quite nice. "Give Me a Call" from late in the run is really good too.

Tentatively, LPs:

Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
The Kniφe - Shaking the Habitual
BRAIDS - Flourish // Perish
Haim - Days Are Gone
Gramme - Fascination
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
Widowspeak - Almanac
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Lusine - The Waiting Room
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
CREEP - Echoes
Lulu Rouge - The Song is the Drum
Little Boots - Nocturnes
Trentemøller - Lost
London Grammar - If You Wait
Emika - Dva
The Field - Cupid's Head

Trax:

The Kniφe - Full of Fire
Gazelle Twin - I Turn My Arm (Kuedo Remix)
Kate Boy - The Way We Are
Petula Clark - Cut Copy Me
RAC - Let Go
Hot Natured - Reverse Skydiving
Chuvrches - The Mother We Share (Moon Boots Remix)
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
Haim - Falling
Studio Killers - All Men Are Pigs
Disclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind
Chvrches - Recover
London Grammar - Metal & Dust
MØ - Waste of Time
Haerts - All the Days
Vanilla Ace - Musicology
Jon Hopkins / Purity Ring - Breathe This Air
Empress Of - Hat Trick

tentative ordered albums

dawn richard - goldenheart
kacey musgraves - same trailer different park
ariana grande - yours truly
brandy clark - 12 stories
miley cyrus - bangerz
m.i.a. - matangi
k. michelle - rebellious soul
creep - echoes
amel larrieux - ice cream every day
holden - the inheritors
2 chainz - b.o.a.t.s. ii: me time
quadron - avalanche
ciara - ciara
sky ferreira - night time, my time
floorplan - paradise
maya jane coles - comfort
fantasia - side effects of me
ashley monroe - like a rose
om'mas keith - city pulse
the knife - shaking the habitual
eve - lip lock
peven everett - king of hearts
jade alston - sunday morning: single on a saturday night pt. 2
julia holter - loud city song
young galaxy - ultramarine

tracks, the perennial "jesus christ how am i going to narrow down this longlist of 150" problem. mariah & miguel the undoubted no 1 though

this peven everett is gorgeous sounding, never heard of dude. Maybe the worst album cover I've ever seen tho.

you've seen No Love Deep Web, right

?

OH the album cover

yes

penis > bad typography

some albums i've dug lately, in no particular order

Vandal X - God Knows
Spray Paint - Spray Paint
Roomrunner - Ideal Cities
The Heliocentrics - 13 Degrees of Reality
Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo - Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo
Sweatson Klank - You, Me, Temporary
Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
Thundercat - Apocalypse
Quadron - Avalanche
RP Boo - Legacy
Emika - DVA
Flying Ibex - Habits
Congo Natty - Jungle Revolution
Boom Pam - Manara and Summer Singles
Coultrain - Jungle Mumbo Jumbo
The Lions - This Generation
Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Who's Gonna Get the Ball from Behind the Wall of the Garden Today?
Aya Nishina – Flora
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Matchess - Seraphastra
Ejecta - Dominae
Solar Bears - Supermigration
The Oscillation - From Tomorrow
Blue Sky Black Death - Glaciers
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Jubei - To Have and Have Not
Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2
White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade
Azar Swan - Dance Before the War

penis > bad typography

haha now I want to see this bad typography

oh wow that is pretty bad, huh

yup and NOTHING like the music, v disconnected artwork

oooo haven't listened to that Glasper yet, thanks for reminder

Bad Sports - Bras [not easy to google these guys, on Dirtnap Records]

I'm kind of weirded out that this doesn't seem to be on *any* year end lists. Punky Texas band having their Replacements breakthrough moment where the songwriting palette suddenly expands in all sorts of interesting ways. Lead singer has traces of David Johansen in his voice, which start to come out more and more on the album's superior 2nd half. Online reviews are mostly by well-meaning punk fans who can't write well, which probably isn't helping. This is a shoo-in for my top ten.

Spottie please get familiar with this ILM dance kru classic! (vocals and trumpets by Peven Everett)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5_VW1Lv3o

I feel like I've missed so much. Probably had less chance to keep up with everything this year than any in my adult life.

Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Who's Gonna Get the Ball from Behind the Wall of the Garden Today?

I didn't know he had anything out this year. I love his father Marcel Khalife's 80s album At the Border (as well as some other things here and there).

Mar-Khalife's Oil Spill had some good passages, but didn't hold up for me as an album.

Meanwhile lots of other stuff on lists posted to this thread that I have no idea about.

Spottie please get familiar with this ILM dance kru classic! (vocals and trumpets by Peven Everett)

― when a real whiney hold you down, you sposed to drown (The Reverend), Wednesday, December 4, 2013 12:32 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mmmmmmm yes. so warm

no order:

1. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob
2. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
3. The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law
4. The Mavericks – In Time
5. The Men – New Moon
6. Gary Allan – Set You Free
7. Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose
8. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
9. Wire – Change Becomes Us
10. Dawn Richard – Goldenheart
11. DJ Koze – Amygdala
12. Suede – Bloodsports
13. Fantasia – Side Effects of You
14. Paramore – s/t
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
16. The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
17. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
18. Pistol Annies – Annie Up
19. Tricky – False Idols
20. Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
21. Ciara – Ciara
22. K Michelle - Rebellious Soul
23. Pet Shop Boys – Electric
24. Superchunk – I Hate Music
25. Haim – Days Gone By
26. Arctic Monkeys – AM
27. Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
28. Danny Brown – Old
29. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time
30. M.I.A. – Matangi
31. Brandy Clark – 12 Songs

If there's no order, why did you number them?

Just to know how many albums I've got. I cut and pasted the list.

The Oscillation - From Tomorrow

this is great -- just got it off bandcamp. didn't realize they had something new out!

Not listening to him but I suddenly am being bombarded with ads for Jake Owen. Whatever happened to stage names?

i'd forgotten about that bad sports album but will check it out again now

jake owen had one of my favorite country songs last year

same. but then again i often fall in love with random singles by vaguely interchangeable personality-free male country singers (him, billy currington, hell even joe nichols).

lol i'm a huge fan of those two as well!

i don't think either of them are wholly interchangeable tho

Albums I've liked so far this year: Parquet Courts, Haim, Vampire Weekend, Ghost BC, Fuzz, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Laura Marling, Waxahatchee, Rose Windows. Still need to check out the MIA, Kadavar, lots of other things...

My favorite tracks of the year: http://sctttnnnt.tumblr.com/post/69855484113/favorite-tracks-of-2013-every-year-my-listening

Mostly a mix of songwritery stuff and ambient stuff.

loosely ordered:

TOP 20 NEW WORLD
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/56xI7bi39W89b2OCIK0D9R

Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch) (Mali)
John Wizards - John Wizards (Planet Mu) (South Africa)
Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy (Tzadik)
Ester Rada - Life Happens EP (self-released) (Israel)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Jama Ko (Out Here) (Mali)
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music) (Syria)
Barbez - Bella Ciao (Tzadik)
Bombino - Nomad (Nonesuch) (Niger)
Jon Madof - Zion80 (Tzadik)
The Epichorus - One Bead (New York/Sudan)
Etran Finatawa - The Sahara Sessions (Riverboat) (Niger)
Arat Kilo - 12 Days in Addis (Only Music)
Tal National - Kaani (FatCat) (Niger)
Mulatu Astatke - Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village) (Ethiopia)
Cheick Tidiane Seck - Guerrier (UMC) (Mali)
Various Artists - Paris DJs Soundsystem Presents Rise of the Troubadour Warriors Tropical Grooves & Afrofunk International Vol. 3 (Paris DJs)
Orphaned Land - All is One (Century) (Israel)
Nuru Kane - Exile (Riverboat) (Senegal)
Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Ngunga Yeti Fofa (Now Again)

TOP 25 WORLD REISSUES
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/74Cwr5M9GAUuh5nD7wBnbs

William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop) (Nigeria)
Grazia - Grazia (Fortuna Records) (Israel)
Hailu Mergia - Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye (Awesome Tapes from Africa) (Ethiopia)
Orchestra Super Mazembe - Mazembe @ 45rpm, Vol. 1 + 2 (Stern's Africa) (Zaire/Kenya)
VA - Voltaique Panoramique Volume 1 - Popular Music in Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978 (Kindred Spirits) (Burkina Faso)
Colomach - Colomach (Soundway) (Nigeria)
VA - Harafin So: Bollywood Inspired Film Music from Hausa Nigeria (Sahel Sounds) (Nigeria)
Blind Musical Flames - Flames Morale (Awesome Tapes from Africa) (Sierra Leone)
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk 1969-1980 Vol. 3 (Analog Africa) (Benin)
National Wake - Walk in Africa 1979-81 (Light in the Attic) (South Africa)
Idassane Wallet Mohamed - Issawat (Sahel Sounds) (Mali)
VA - Shik Shak Shok! (Worldwild Production) (Lebanon)
Freedom Family - Ayentsoo (Academy LPs) (West Africa)
Itadi - Itadi (Hot Casa) (Togo)
VA - African Shakedown EP (Juno Records) (Ghana)
Penny Penny - Shaka Bundu (Awesome Tapes from Africa) (South Africa)
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Funky Highlife (Mr Bongo) (Ghana)
Dieuf-Dieul De Thies - Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 (Teranga Beat) (Senegal)
Mammane Sani et son Orgue - La Musique Electronique du Niger (Sahel Sounds) (Niger)
Dur-Dur Band - Volume 5 (Awesome Tapes from Africa) (Somalia)
Orchestre National de Mauritanie - ST (Sahel Sounds) (Mauritanie)
VA - Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983 (Analog Africa) (Ghana)
VA - Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs from Tito's Yugoslavia, 1964-1980 (Asphalt Tango) (Yugoslavia)
VA - Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & 80s (Soundway Records) (Kenya)
VA - Nightingales & Canaries (Mississippi)
VA - Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco (Dust to Digital) (Morocco)

The new album from The Heliocentrics (13 Degrees of Reality) belongs on my list as well

Forgot to mention the new Camera Obscura as well. If you like that thing they do, they do it well.

So what's the difference between New World and World?

Oh wait, World are reissues?

"New World" as in new mostly non-English language international music releases, "world reissues" as in 2013 issued releases of old mostly-non-English music. But maybe you figured that out and are just messing with Mordy

numbered list = new world order

why no love for world psychedelic classics 1-4?

Ah, I'm not messing on purpose, just slow putting things together today :/

none of the other wpc came out in 2013! xp

saada bonaire is hot

I spent some time with Old this year, but it isn't one of my favorite records this year. Think in the end I like watching interviews with Danny Brown more than listening to his music, seems like he'd be fun to hang out with.

Ah, wrong thread!

I scratched out a year-end albums thing earlier today: http://enduser2013.tumblr.com/

Here's my 2013 recap thingy:

http://2012yearinmusic.blogspot.com/2014/01/2013-in-10-live-songs.html

we have one of these for 2014 yet?

Rolling fave tracks + albums 2014

thx