Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

yeah, i guess i wanted it placed in a larger context of some kind, idk

it's neo-druidic drone pop

Stereogum:
http://www.stereogum.com/1567541/the-50-best-albums-of-2013/list/

01. Kanye West - Yeezus (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
02. Deafheaven - Sunbather (Deathwish)
03. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City (XL)
04. Disclosure - Settle (Cherrytree)
05. My Bloody Valentine - m b v (Self-released)
06. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
07. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
08. HAIM - Days Are Gone (Polydor)
09. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Columbia)
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
11. Volcano Choir - Repave (Jagjaguwar)
12. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels (Fool's Gold)
13. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
14. Savages - Silence Yourself (Matador/Pop Noire)
15. Kvelertak - Meir (Sony Music Scandinavia/Roadrunner)
16. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt (Don Giovanni)
17. Windhand - Soma (Relapse)
18. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (Self-released)
19. Tegan And Sara - Heartthrob (Warner Bros.)
20. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
etc

a rare sighting of the Field @ #33

I lost interest in Run the Jewels after August. It's due for another spin.

So it looks like a KDeDaHV kind of year? As opposed to that GAPDY year. I'm seeing Kanye, Deafhaven, Daft Punk, Haim and Vampire Weekend pop up on pretty much every list.

20 best cassette releases of 2013 http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/02/the-20-best-cassette-releases-of-2013

awesome, thanks!

seems like tape ppl mostly listen to drone & noise stuff. my 2 fav tapes of 2013 were by reg old bands needle gun and deformity

This is a weird way round of doing things - Magnet haven't published their list yet, but they're already running this poll online:

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/12/03/what-record-didnt-deserve-to-make-our-top-25-albums-of-2013/

Wonder why the deafheaven album is getting non-rock/metal crit love over say Ghost or Asg , In Solitude, Kylesa or Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats?
Those seem more like what they would normally pick than a shoegazy black metal album on Converge's label. ( is that why? Converge got a lot of crit love the past few years.)

What a boring list. However, everyone should flood that poll with votes for Foxygen.

it has nothing to do with converge

it is because it is shoegazy

and has buzz

MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year.

1 Kylesa Ultraviolet (Season Of Mist)
2 Deafheaven Sunbather (Deathwish, Inc.)
3 Carcass Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
4 Innumerable Forms/Blessed Offal split LP (Painkiller)
5 Jesu Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came (Avalanche)
6 Windhand Soma (Relapse)
7 ASG Blood Drive (Relapse)
8 Red Fang Whales And Leeches (Relapse)
9 Moss Horrible Night (Metal Blade)
10 Subrosa More Constant Than The Gods (Profound Lore)
- See more at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/12/03/best-of-2013-metal/#sthash.FMzoIv56.dpuf

I need to get that Moss album. Forgot to buy it. Hardly bought any music this year.

For all the dichotomy people have drawn between the first four tracks on Yeezus and the rest, I listen to "I'm In It" and "Bound 2" and "Send It Up" way more than any of the opening tracks these days.

The first four are certainly noteworthy, but I like the whole record. ymmv

Also, that Magnet poll has already been yanked.

Are Wolves in the Throne Room the main crossover precedent for Deafheaven? Seems like it has something to do with pulling off the right inversions, like eco themes or a pink cover.

possibly? wittr's rise felt a lot more organic to me....deafheaven seems like they have a good publicist.

Liturgy perhaps also a precedent: "hipsters", Williamsburg, on Thrill Jockey, silly pronouncements etc. all "inversion" tropes mentioned above

Also, that Magnet poll has already been yanked.

Ha, I did think it might be a mistake

that Moss album is really good and I totally just forgot about it. though I don't like it as well as Tombs of the Blind Dead.

Maybe because Haim were running away with it and their label complained?
xp

why would a magazine take down a poll because the label of the winning act complained? why would the label complain? you have such weird ideas of how the world works.

erm did you see what the poll was?

but carry on with your weird ideas

(It was a poll of which album shouldnt have made our list and Haim was walking it, but lets be honest the reason its pulled is because it was meant to go up after the list was published)

i think deafheaven is more of an alcest thing (though the graphic design helps), as far as that goes.

I love the album and the one before it but it still surprises me that its this years token crossover album.

that Moss album is really good and I totally just forgot about it. though I don't like it as well as Tombs of the Blind Dead.

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned),

I really like the fact Olly is singing now. As with Electric Wizard, it really opens them up to new styles by having actual singing instead of shouty vox all the times. It stops them treading the same old ground.

Before it was pulled down, Foxygen had taken a commanding lead (of 10 votes to 6 for Haim).

did Foxygen really happen this year? that feels like it was a million Hipster Runoff years ago by now

Haim had 27 votes when I saw it. Never heard of Foxygen

17, i mean

I keep getting Foxygen confused with Fozzy (hard rock/metal band fronted by a pro wrestler).

Årabrot, Teeth Of The Sea, John Foxx, Gary Numan, Barn Owl, oVo, lots of interesting stuff on the Quietus list that are on my playlists, but are competing with several hundred albums that are just as interesting, but likely won't be in my top 100. There's plenty I need to hear but it doesn't have me excited about new impending mindblowing discoveries.

Grumbling Fur, These New Puritans and Foals all in the Quietus top ten: a red letter day for singers in UK indie bands with terrible voices

the moaner, the mumbler and the ass

The Deafheaven's cover/packaging definitely helps in terms of not scaring off the curious but its crossover success is not surprising or hard to understand, it's all about the extroverted, emotive explosions in the sky style crescendoing, really a far cry from the other metal bands mentioned.

I really like the fact Olly is singing now. As with Electric Wizard, it really opens them up to new styles by having actual singing instead of shouty vox all the times. It stops them treading the same old ground.

I guess

I liked that ground

me too but there's only so many times they can tread it before it goes stale or not as good as before.

Did we have this already?

Spin's best songs:
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-songs-2013/

the winner is 'what does the fox say' if you can't be bothered to click through

I have adblock installed so it doesn't let me watch it at all and I'm sure as hell not disabling it for Spin.

I feel sorry for the people who think having 'what does the fox say' on their list is funny in any way. Even more for those who actually think it's a great song.

"What Does the Fox Say" is actually #42, don't believe the comedian there. i only clarify this because there seem to be a lot of people that seriously won't click through.

Aw, it's a funny novelty song. Definitely outstayed its welcome, though.

Is the Spin list meant to be so badly displayed? I don't like click-through lists anyway, but I have to click, scroll down to read, and then scroll back up to click to the next one. Is that me having a stupid computer or is it their fault?

(I mean, I realise it's not the end of the world, it just seems like bad design is all.)

Actually, scratch that. Arrow keys, man, arrow keys.

people wont click through because they hate clicking through lists nothing to do with what does the fox say im sure

i know that's why, literally no one said the opposite.