Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

TheBoot.com - Best Albums of 2013
http://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'

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,

40. Batillus- Concrete Stain
Dark Tranquility - Construct
Corrections House - Last City Zero
Watain - The Wild Hunt
Aevangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Portal - Vexovoid
Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Ulcerate - Vermis
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Exhumed -Necrocracy
Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Antigama - Meteor
The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
Lycus- Tempest
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Nails - Abandon AllLife
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Deafheaven - Sunbather
10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
9. Noisem - Agonies Defined
8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
7. Melt-Banana - Fetch
6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
3. Gorguts - Colored Sands
2. In Solitude - Sister
1. Carcass - Surgical Steel

^ Decibel Magazine end of year

Renowned For Sound - Best Albums of 2013
http://renownedforsound.com/index.php/best-albums-of-2013/

A Day to Remember - Common Courtesy
Alison Moyet - the minutes
AlunaGeorge - Body Music
Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Charli XCX - True Romance
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
David Bowie - The Next Day
Dido - Girl Who Got Away
Ellie Goulding - Halycon Days
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Forest Fire - Screens
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Haim - Days are Gone
Icona Pop - This is Icona Pop
Jimmy Eat World - Damage
John Newman - Tribute
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Part 2
Kanye West - Yeezus
Katy Perry - Prism
Lady Antebellum - Golden
Lady Gaga - ARTPOP
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Lisa Loeb - No Fairy Tale
Little Scout - Are You Life
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Luscious Jackson - Magic Hour
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Moby - Innocents
Moderat - II
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Newton Faulkner - Studio Zoo
Paul McCartney - New
Paula Cole - Raven
Phoenix - Bankrupt
Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Shane Filan - You and Me
St Lucia - When the Night
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
Texas - The Conversation
The Fratellis - We Need Medicine
Tina Arena - Reset
Tonight Alive - The Other Side
TRAAMS - Grin
Turin Brakes - We Were Here
VV Brown - Samson & Delilah

Dido ahoy!

what the fuck is reknowned for sound

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

You'd be really embarrassed not to get your album on that Renowned In Sound list. It's about as indiscriminate as humanly possible.

texas, paula cole and luscious jackson albums all life-changing antidotes to this year of morose 80s revivals

For some reason I thought Tina Arena was actually dead. Who am I thinking of?

UltimateClassicRock.com - Best Albums of 2013
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-rock-albums-of-2013/

― 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.

This really is a collection of particularly uninteresting records and Haim

and caitlin rose!

decibel top three otm

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in a complete turnaround from the classic rock albums of 2012

I think they've been running that '20 Hottest Rock Daughters' list since last November, unless it's been brought back for #InternationalMensDay

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.

I still don't get how you can write a best of year list in November. Mid November, even.

if anything a lot of the ones being printed now were likely submitted before the end of last month

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 ;)

Fnb he did post it but i added the album names. Got it from my digital sub for my ipad.

The Boombox - Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2013
http://theboombox.com/10-best-hip-hop-albums-of-2013/

Kanye West - Yeezus
Danny Brown - Old
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Jay Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail
Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
Mac Miller - Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
French Montana - Excuse My French

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!

*Ultimate* Classic Rock if you please

to be fair to them, it has been a pretty good year for sexegenarians and septuagenarian, half that list is better albums than i expected those guys to make at this late date

Great Decibel list. In Solitude and SubRosa, pretty much my two favourites of the year, in the top 5. :)

Any rap list with Magna Carta Holy Grail on it makes me just think "here's a list of rap albums that came out in 2013".

I didn't realise only 10 hip hop albums had been released this year

Listening To Albums With The Sound Off

lol DL I had the same reaction

is retro soulster Charles Bradley the only African-American on the Rough Trade shops list?

― curmudgeon, Monday, November 18, 2013 11:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw i mean i could see having problems with the list, but i saw bradley and was just completely and utterly charmed by him...also he's not really "retro" so much as "old guy doing the same stuff he always did"

he has some good songs and can really sing.

it was pretty touching how grateful he was that people were interested in seeing him and having fun listening to him

yeah, that charles bradley record is really good, and i can't wait to see him live. (also, valerie june is african-american)

I don't think curmudgeon is having a go at Charles.

There's a tune on the album I absolutely love - "Confusion"? I cannot remember the name but it's something like that.

I like a few off the boombox list but it is still one dry-arse list. What no Juicy J, Vic Mensa, le$, Ka in there ? just to name some from memory that shined very brightly.

Saw Charles Bradley at a festival in Bilbao this summer and was blown away by his mic-stand humping and his strained wail. He was great. Went to the VIP section after and saw him sat alone, drinking a small beer and smoking a rollie, looking utterly depressed. Bit of a bummer really.

I was not criticizing Bradley. I like him too. I was just being less than clear in pointing out that Bradley prefers to sing old-school '60s style soul rather than the slightly more contemporary feeling Southern soul/chitlin circuit soul that XChuckx and I talk about on the Chitlin Circuit soul thread (that uses synths and such)

Another shop one:

Resident Records / Brighton - top 100 albums of 2013
http://www.resident-music.com/

01 Matthew E. White - Big Inner
02 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
03 Savages - Silence Yourself
04 Daughter - If You Leave
05 Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone
06 Jon Hopkins - Immunity
07 John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
08 Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
09 Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
10 Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
11 Follakzoid - ii
12 Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
13 Forest Swords - Engravings
14 Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
15 Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
16 Public Service Broadcasting - Inform - Educate - Entertain
17 Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love is the Devil
18 Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
19 Ghostpoet -Some Say I So I Say Light
20 Devendra Banhart - Mala

Good shop, kinda boring list

I guess Mojo and Uncut will be out shortly, wonder what they'll do about the Roy Harper situation?

That Melt Yourself Down Album bangs. I have no idea what people are seeing in Daughter though.

x-post to me --I think Charles Bradley fans would like Southern soul singer Mel Waiters 2013 album "Poor Side of Town" but since its on a small label, uses programmed rhythms and was not marketed to indie, NPR, and such related outlets, they'll likely never hear it.

Need to give it another go, but I couldn't get along with the sax playing on that Melt Yrself Down. Bit too much Pigbag and not enough unrestrained skronk for me.

That's wareham, right? I meant to check that out & never got round to it.

Yes, Brit sax player Pete Wareham. Never heard it either, but I liked Pigbag back in the day.

daughter literally the boringest album i heard all year. their cover of "get lucky" was soul destroying

They cover Loverboy?! That shoulda been awesome.

I was not criticizing Bradley. I like him too. I was just being less than clear in pointing out that Bradley prefers to sing old-school '60s style soul rather than the slightly more contemporary feeling Southern soul/chitlin circuit soul that XChuckx and I talk about on the Chitlin Circuit soul thread (that uses synths and such)

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:52 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Valerie June also Af-Am but she makes bluegrass or something. Definitely capturing the zeitgeist of black America.

I should make clear that's a shot at Rough Trade, not at June, who I have no beef with.