Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

Spin metal list kinda reads to me like a compendium of the most praised stuff of the year from the bigger of the 'thinking person's' metal blogs/webzines, with no real surprises save for Wrekmeister Harmonies and maybe Locrian. not sure how they put their poll together so idk if it's the perils of voting by committee or one person being unimaginative or something else
--screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap)

If someone could point me to a "thinking person's metal blog" I'd really appreciate it thanx

"SPIN's metal list looks like its run by professionals who know how to write for an audience"

lol @ how ilm will never get over gapdy

^^^^^ this

The best was when Scott kool-aid manned in here and tried to take credit for the notoriously weaksauce middlebrow tastes of america's alt-weekly writers.

Has there been anything like 40 Watt Sun released this year? It was my ultimate discovery from the 2011 lists (I believe from SPIN) and the sole reason I keep scanning the EOY metal lists, hoping for something remotely like that record.

I was kind of "this is okay, whatever" about the Pusha T album until I hit "40 Acres", which is just great

should probably be more annoyed by the consensus among metal lists but man those carcass, gorguts, and subrosa records are unbelievable

i like the darkthrone album. quite different to what i expected, but it's rollicking fun.

Dummy - Best albums #20-11
http://www.dummymag.com/lists/the-20-best-albums-of-2013

a few good records in there but i'm not really down with their thing on the whole

first time I've seen Mount Kimbie on one of these things. not sure I ever heard the album

that horrible deptford goth record

needs to be a sleaford mods vs deptford goth fite

xpost you're giving me inverse nostalgia for 2009 guys.

If anyones interested ~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2013~~~

Cool, be sure to remind us once or 500 times as it gets closer to deadline

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blurred-lines-the-worst-song-of-this-or-any-other-year-20131206

disagree with basically all of that

Has there been anything like 40 Watt Sun released this year? It was my ultimate discovery from the 2011 lists (I believe from SPIN) and the sole reason I keep scanning the EOY metal lists, hoping for something remotely like that record.
― ArchCarrier

Pallbearer's album last year maybe. Metal Archives also lists Warning, The River, Summit, The Human Condition, SubRosa and Woods of Ypres as "similar artists" but probably you just have to wait for another 40 Watt Sun album.

Warning was Pat's band before 40 Watt Sun and were fucking amazing. Esp Watching From a Distance

haha i like 'blurred lines' but i will always have time for rob sheffield on the warpath, esp since he always takes out some other targets on the way. maybe my fave piece from the chuck eddy crony era of the village voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-12-30/music/nobody-can-touch-him/

pallbearer album is a decent call tho there is really no one like pat walker

in what world was lady marmalade a hit for 2 weeks

However if you just mean as good as but different doom related, I'd say the SubRosa, In Solitude, Seidr, Jex Thoth, Brimstone Coven, Mountain Witch, Black Capricorn, Avatarium, Obelyskkh, Argus and Magic Circle.

in what world was lady marmalade a hit for 2 weeks

probably the world of hilarious hyperbole

"hilarious"

Flavorwire - The 10 Most Overrated Albums of 2013
http://flavorwire.com/428360/the-10-most-overrated-albums-of-2013/

^ bit of a feeble effort

does the world really need three sisters who sound like Belinda Carlisle?

uh yes

Also, none of them actually sound much like Belinda Carlisle.

Arcade Fire used to make you feel something, sure

if you're a lame maybe

i'm sick of bitches lyin i'm sick of tom hawking, matter fact i'm sick of talkin

*blam*

Only time Arcade Fire ever made me feel something was a few laughs when the Who The Fuck Is Arcade Fire? meme rolled on for a week after they won their Grammy.

Some bizarre page layout on this one...

Washington Post - Best (& worst) albums
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2013/12/06/best-music-of-2013/

flavorwire -absolutely OTM , my thoughts exactly.

Magnet Magazine - best albums of 2013 o_O
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/12/06/magnets-top-25-albums-of-2013/

1. Okkervil River | The Silver Gymnasium (ATO)
2. Neko Case | The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (Anti-)
3. Yo La Tengo | Fade (Matador)
4. Atoms For Peace | Amok (XL)
5. The National | Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
6. Deerhunter | Monomania (4AD)
7. Superchunk | I Hate Music (Merge)
8. Daft Punk | Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia)
9. David Yow | Tonight You Look Like A Spider (Joyful Noise)
10. Foxygen | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)

hahahahahaha

the boulder-sized beanbag it takes to make a list with Vampire Weekend and Daft Punk but zero actual African-Americans is amazing

That Yow album has some valiant attempts of experimentation, but a rough listen for sure.

it's magnet

i mean, yeah, but it's magnet

Jeanne Fury on Savages FTW

http://peelslowlynsee.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/joe-mantell-as-walsh.jpg?w=500&h=271

Thanks for the doom recommendations guys! Will try to check out some of them. I think I heard Pallbearer last year, but they didn't make much of an impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JxkeV8hIVQ

DeRogatis' top 30. Chance the Rapper at #3 for Whiney approval. Only mention of The Warlocks so far.

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-12/30-best-albums-2013-30-21-109291
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-12/best-albums-2013-20-11-109292
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-12/best-albums-2013-top-10-109293

Cool, be sure to remind us once or 500 times as it gets closer to deadline

― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten)

And we will have 500 click-throughs until you can see who won it too.

man people keep trotting out the click-through zing as if that was anything i'm in any position to have control over with the exception of going full ott and just quitting

you'd make a great vlogger.