london grammar definitely seem like this year's "guys the industry is really pushing this one" favourite repped only by our most PR arse-kissing colleagues
the funny thing about hopkins getting so much praise is that holden himself has actually released a genuinely brilliant album this year that does not sound like he did in 2005-07!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
london grammar did top the album charts tho. am curious to learn how exactly but not enough to actually find out
rt list is obv a conflation of narrowing record pool and, like many ilx posters, narrowing taste as age takes its toll on the staff's mental faculties. never was much cop tbf but an increasingly pathetic sight all the same
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 10:55 (ten years ago) link
My music teacher sister-in-law is very much into london grammar, probably about the only new thing she's bought all year?
Daniel Avery's not as bad as Matt makes out, but it is a bit weird picking that one above e.g. Factory Floor
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah i feel like i missed where lg's in was this year - had assumed like an advert spot or some such but then the xx didnt have one either iirc
for something that gets characterised as unthinking the coffee table pull is deceptively puissant among the masses really
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:11 (ten years ago) link
I've listened to it all the way through, it's not terrible but it's kind of dull and the vocalist has some dreadful stage school mannerisms. It's sort of splitting the difference between Jessie Ware (complete with appearance on the Disclosure album) and I dunno Anna Calvi or Florence's quieter moments or something. It's hit directly in the middle of a venn diagram so I'm not surprised it's doing well. I would say Dido but that's too loaded in this day and age.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:16 (ten years ago) link
I've heard maybe 5 albums on this list, only MBV is awesome, the others didn't make my own top 25.
Splice Today will have our own list once again, sometime in mid-December
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
feel like our american chums are missing out if we don't share a london grammar photo:
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/624x351/p01gb9nv.jpg
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:28 (ten years ago) link
I went back and forth on voting for VW but won't/haven't in a top ten way (though it made my top 25 for MAGNET). It's a good album, a really good album, but not stellar on the level of what a bunch if other people got up to this year
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:29 (ten years ago) link
This year I'm totally using the Wire list as a buying guide
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
I keep telling people I like London grammar because I keep thinking that London grammar are clean bandit
― comic sbans soref (wins), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
Sister Ray Staff end of year staff chart: SAVAGES – SILENCE YOURSELFNICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – PUSH THE SKY AWAYHOOKWORMS – PEARL MYSTICARCTIC MONKEYS – AMONEOHTRIX POISANT NEVER – R PLUS SEVENMOGWAI – LES REVENANTSDANIEL AVERY – DRONE LOGICWIRE – CHANGE BECOMES USFUZZ – FUZZTIM HECKER – VIRGINSJOHNNY MARR – THE MESSENGERFUCK BUTTONS – SLOW FOCUSUNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – IISPECIAL REQUEST – SOUL MUSICSALVIA PLATH – BARDO STORYPOND – HOBO ROCKETTY SEGALL – SLEEPERLAUREL HALO – CHANCE OF RAIN KURT VILE – WAKIN' ON A PRETTY DAZEJON HOPKINS – IMMUNITY
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
xp that is an unfortunate blunder. but on the plus side it does kinda correctly exalt the latter in a way - like if awkward wite well-meaning uni poshos are going to get together and make music then why are only clean bandit bright and honest and capricious enough to sound like clean bandit?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
strangely disappointed that london grammar arent the naff uk raphop group i'd instinctively assumed they'd be
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:34 (6 months ago) Bookmark
this is still the sad case fwiw btw
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
they're not even from london iirc
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:39 (ten years ago) link
wiki says nottingham, must be heady days there w/ those guys and jake bugg
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
if there's one thing i know from my record buying days it's that everyone associated with sister ray is a complete anus, fuck their opinions imo
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:41 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So fucking glad I left. Though I fear maybe it was the lack of my musical discipline that led them to this sorry state.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
:)
does make me wonder why you're saving your last grenade for haim when you've got these folks living next door to your mum
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
Maybe because I now can't say 'home' in a Scottish accent without inadvertently referencing a shitty band. THIS CANNOT STAND.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
That hair is 'shopped, right
― guitar is coffee (DJP), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah you're just jealous
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Revolver Magazine - Best Albums of 2013
1. Black Sabbath – 132. Deafheaven – Sunbather3. Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King4. Kvelertak – Meir5. Nails – Abandon All Life6. Carcass – Surgical Steel7. Ghost – Infestissumam8. Windhand – Soma9. Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here10. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork11. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us Is the Killer12. Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies13. Korn – The Paradigm Shift14. Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones pt. 215. Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven…16. ASG – Blood Drive17. Watain – The Wild Hunt18. A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul to Waste19. Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor20. Gorguts – Colored Sand
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
huh
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
UltimateClassicRock.com - Best Albums of 2013http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-rock-albums-of-2013/
1. David Bowie - The Next Day2. Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)3. Paul McCartney - New4. Elvis Costello and the Roots - Wise Up Ghost5. Elton John - The Diving Board6. Gov't Mule - Shout!7. Motorhead - Aftershock8. Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell & Angels9. Various Artists - Sound City: Real to Reel10. John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
good stuff
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
TheBoot.com - Best Albums of 2013http://theboot.com/best-albums-of-2013/
01 Keith Urban 'Fuse'02 Kacey Musgraves 'Same Trailer Different Park'03 Luke Bryan 'Crash My Party'04 Brad Paisley 'Wheelhouse'05 Ashley Monroe 'Like a Rose'06 Patty Griffin 'Silver Bell'07 Kenny Rogers 'You Can't Make Old Friends'08 Sheryl Crow 'Feels Like Home'09 Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell 'Old Yellow Moon'10 Joe Nichols 'Crickets'
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
god i almost want every other outlet to hurry up with their lists so we can discuss something other than this thuddingly safe & dull thing― lex pretend,
― lex pretend,
40. Batillus- Concrete StainDark Tranquility - ConstructCorrections House - Last City ZeroWatain - The Wild HuntAevangelist - Omen Ex SimulacraNoctum - Final SacrificeSkeletonwitch - Serpents UnleashedCathedral - The Last SpireColiseum - Sister FaithPortal - VexovoidIron Reagan - Worse Than DeadCraven Idol - Towards EschatonAnciients - Heart Of OakUlcerate - VermisOranssi Pazuzu - ValonieluUncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind ControlExhumed -NecrocracyImmolation - Kigdom of ConspiracyKylesa - UltravioletAntigama - MeteorThe Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich KramerIhsahn - Das SeelenbrechenLycus- TempestPurson - The Circle and the Blue DoorSecrets of the Sky - To Sail Black WatersAutopsy - The Headless RitualInter Arma - Sky BurialNails - Abandon AllLifeToxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of ConsciousnessDeafheaven - Sunbather10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death9. Noisem - Agonies Defined8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance7. Melt-Banana - Fetch6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse4. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods3. Gorguts - Colored Sands2. In Solitude - Sister1. Carcass - Surgical Steel
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
^ Decibel Magazine end of year
Renowned For Sound - Best Albums of 2013http://renownedforsound.com/index.php/best-albums-of-2013/
A Day to Remember - Common CourtesyAlison Moyet - the minutesAlunaGeorge - Body MusicAmos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of SongArcade Fire - ReflektorArctic Monkeys - AMCharli XCX - True RomanceDaft Punk - Random Access MemoriesDavid Bowie - The Next DayDido - Girl Who Got AwayEllie Goulding - Halycon DaysEminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and RollForest Fire - ScreensFranz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right ActionGoldfrapp - Tales of UsHaim - Days are GoneIcona Pop - This is Icona PopJimmy Eat World - DamageJohn Newman - TributeJustin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Part 2Kanye West - YeezusKaty Perry - PrismLady Antebellum - GoldenLady Gaga - ARTPOPLaura Marling - Once I Was An EagleLisa Loeb - No Fairy TaleLittle Scout - Are You LifeLorde - Pure HeroineLuscious Jackson - Magic HourMiley Cyrus - BangerzMoby - InnocentsModerat - IINeko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love YouNewton Faulkner - Studio ZooPaul McCartney - NewPaula Cole - RavenPhoenix - BankruptQueens of the Stone Age - …Like ClockworkRobin Thicke - Blurred LinesShane Filan - You and MeSt Lucia - When the NightTegan and Sara - HeartthrobTexas - The ConversationThe Fratellis - We Need MedicineTina Arena - ResetTonight Alive - The Other SideTRAAMS - GrinTurin Brakes - We Were HereVV Brown - Samson & Delilah
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Dido ahoy!
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
what the fuck is reknowned for sound
― just got dope thai food (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
if you're going to post parody lists at least use semiplausible publication names
Best of Rock(Read the reviews)
NOTE: I haven't even started listening to 2013 albums. I'm still reviewing 2012. So the list below is wildly incomplete.
8/10 7.5/10 1 Haxan Cloak: Excavation (Tri Angle) 7/10
EPs and minis:
1 Pharmakon: Abandon (Sacred Bones), 7.5/10 (EP)
http://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/2013.html
― just got dope thai food (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
You'd be really embarrassed not to get your album on that Renowned In Sound list. It's about as indiscriminate as humanly possible.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
texas, paula cole and luscious jackson albums all life-changing antidotes to this year of morose 80s revivals
― nashwan, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
For some reason I thought Tina Arena was actually dead. Who am I thinking of?
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:56 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark
As far as classic-rock albums go, 2013 was all about familiar sounds by old favorites, with a few welcome returns and at least one totally surprising comeback that nobody knew was coming. We also got another posthumous Jimi Hendrix album — but at least it’s a good one. From metal marathoners to cozy piano ballads, here are the Top Rock Albums of 2013.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
This really is a collection of particularly uninteresting records and Haim
and caitlin rose!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
decibel top three otm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
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― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
in a complete turnaround from the classic rock albums of 2012
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I think they've been running that '20 Hottest Rock Daughters' list since last November, unless it's been brought back for #InternationalMensDay
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the Decibel list. EZ Snappin put it in Rolling Metal yesterday, but has it actually been published anywhere? Happy to see Noctum, Anciients, Oranssi Pazuzu, Purson and SubRosa. A little surprised not to see Russian Circles, Windhand, Kvelertak, Palms, Pelican and Sahg. Also missing tons of great doom, but did not expect them to pay mind to that stuff. Corrections House is interesting in a similar way to Pinkish Black, need to listen more.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
I still don't get how you can write a best of year list in November. Mid November, even.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
if anything a lot of the ones being printed now were likely submitted before the end of last month
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Theoretically the print mags already had access to promos of albums due out this and next month. Still, they are working at a disadvantage. That's why the ILM poll is way better ;)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Fnb he did post it but i added the album names. Got it from my digital sub for my ipad.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
The Boombox - Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2013http://theboombox.com/10-best-hip-hop-albums-of-2013/
Kanye West - YeezusDanny Brown - OldDrake - Nothing Was the SameEarl Sweatshirt - DorisJay Z - Magna Carta Holy GrailPusha T - My Name Is My NameMac Miller - Watching Movies with the Sound OffRun the Jewels - Run the JewelsA$AP Ferg - Trap LordFrench Montana - Excuse My French
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Classic Rock sure knows what it's there for. You're a 60s/70s dude, alive or dead, with a new album out? Step this way sir!
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
*Ultimate* Classic Rock if you please
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
No interest in ILM's in house poll? I find that puzzling.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
I'm feeling guilty I didn't find the time to vote. But I did start looking at it and I saw this below which means I need to check out your ballot:
Rudipherous's ballot is awesome in both spirit and content
I'm so glad ppl voted for the selma oxor & neneh cherry tracks I nommed & then negged, I was feeling guilty
― chekhprivan (wins), Friday, January 24, 2014 1:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
I didn't even see that.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh I see it picked up a lot of posts since I looked at it before going to bed last night.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Well, I will have to see if Christgau fave African albums also have shown up on the ILM in-house poll
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Albums haven't been rolled out yet.
Spotify playlist for the track winners (with some missing) here:
https://play.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6aanFh0UkiNJlrvg3kZgmI
(If that doesn't open for your properly, try put it into the search box in Spotify.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Or youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHeAwiD-CsRG-9rOfi3PLC9Rcw2R06lC
There definitely are some good tunes missing from Spotify, notably Lulu James's "Closer."
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello
And Kimya Dawson. The Uncluded is her with a rapper I had never heard before named Aesop Rock. As a Dean acolyte I bought it. Love the stuff with Kimya but that guy's voice is not my cup of musical tea.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 25 January 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
i would like to see a slatepitch about the lack of audience overlap between kimya dawson and aesop rock, because i can believe that i would be going to never believe how much there was
― j., Saturday, 25 January 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link
man kimya dawson plus aesop rock is some heavy 2001 shit
― balls, Saturday, 25 January 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
http://fuckyouhipsters.blogspot.fr/2014/01/fuck-you-hipsters-podsumowuja-dobre.html
Pretty good list of best polish records. Stara Rzeka is present obviosuly, along with his two other projects: T'ien Lai (http://tienlai.bandcamp.com/) and Alameda 3 (http://alamedacountydeathcult.bandcamp.com/).
Blurbs are in polish but you can find most of these on bandcamp/soundcloud/spotify easily. Some of them:https://soundcloud.com/kirkkirk/sets/z-a-krew - kIRk 'Zla krew' (winner)http://open.spotify.com/album/3ozjrP9lQG5MUBYn9QphFQ - Super Girl & Romantic Boys (number 2, super kitschy 80s electro)http://open.spotify.com/album/4N3qM5HIHD8aqL3r44qd4R - Kixnare (number 3, electronic/instrumental hip-hop, "Gucci Dough" is the obvious hit song but all of it is worth a listen)http://kaseciarz.bandcamp.com/ - Kaseciarz, "low budget rock and roll"https://lxmp.bandcamp.com/ - LXMP, take on "Future Shock" by two of the best polish musicians, commisioned for the Unsound Festival. http://open.spotify.com/album/4w6BLeGIfTvuc2XepFXUaI - RSS B0ys (great, dark techno)
― antoni, Sunday, 26 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
Awesome. Thanks for posting that!
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Sunday, 26 January 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link