ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

sorry that just makes me think of the cranberries

Listened to the Follakzoid album over the weekend and liked it. Great cover too, yeah - I like most of the Sacred Bones artwork, I wish I liked more of their acts really.

Yesssssssssssssssssss Oh Sees, my #2 album, those guys are so ridiculously consistent.
Haven't even heard of Follakzoid!

honestly i've never known what beardo disco really is, so if it's like groovy trance rock, maybe i would like it?

NA we could make a local follakzoid -- those beats are easy!

ooooooh I just know that something good is gonna happpeeeeeeen!

(fyi: something good hasn't happened yet)

Nice! I didn't say anything before because I figured the Follakzoid was coming due to its high placing in the metal poll. Glad to see interest in this Chilean psych band, which probably would have gone unnoticed if it weren't for Sacred Bones releasing it. Other motorik/kosmische oriented stuff I discovered belatedly from 2013 are Death Hawks - s/t, Eat Lights Become Lights - Modular Living, Papir - Papir III and Space Debris - She's A Temple.

Gorguts was #4 on the Metal Poll btw.

Yeah there was a bunch of stuff that sounds vaguely similar to Follakzoid last year (also Holydrug Couple, Barn Owl...) but I think they pulled it off most successfully.

Yesssss INCREDIBLE FUCKING ALBUM, my number 5, listened just before deadline and had no option. It is a genuinely awesome compositional achievement. Open minds, please!

we got a tie coming up btw

Features some of the best and most interesting songwriting of the year xp to self. aw J give it another minute lol

hmmm. Is it real metal? I just wanna know before I listen to it. That deafheaven track was pretty chill, is it like that?

Awesome record. I feel like it'll be years before I've mentally mapped it out.

And no wins, this is not a Deafheaven situation.

I like how the riffs cascade into one another, but I'm gonna be one of those people and say I'd like it more with more melodic vocals.

seems very trve kvlt based on the track I listened to

http://i.imgur.com/OFyYBXj.jpg?1

(tie) 68. KELELA Cut 4 Me (295 points, 10 votes)

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xp ok I will listen to it another night

Hmm, have heard one of Gorguts' albums (Erosion of Sanity) before, it wasn't really for me. Is this one any different?

Follakzoid sounded nice!

honestly i've never known what beardo disco really is, so if it's like groovy trance rock, maybe i would like it?

i should think so! studio's "out there" is about as good as beardo disco gets really (nb: 15 mins long but all awesome)

Ooh, I probably got this on the list. Suck it, haters :D

v good

"a lie" is the prettiest, saddest song

wow, surprised in a good way to see kelela so low

there are bangers on cut 4 me (floor show) but as a whole album i didn't fall in love with

there are good beats and good singing in places but it's a bit scattered

i feel like she could do some good things tho we'll see

Unfortunately for me, Kelela is kind of this year's Cooly G. In other words, great production watered down to make space for mediocre vocals.

I think I'm still a tad bitter at her for stopping the Night Slugs/Fade to Mind showcase at last year's SXSW dead in its tracks, taking it off track from a really fun dance party to a dull concert with a lot of gawking and zero dancing.

Didn't vote for Kelela but thought it was interesting the couple of times I listened to it, should probably check it out again.
Listening to the Follakzoid, it's fine but it seems like there's so much of this stuff every year and it's all pretty indistinguishable for me.

It's a good album, but I think this is about the right place for it.

Happy to compare this to Cooly G's album, enjoyed that one too.

follakzoid is great, nice find from this poll

Will also say re: Gorguts, if you want a way in, the song The Battle Of Chamdo (sp?) is a pure (and brilliant) string-quartet piece, no guitars or growling at all

"floor show" is def about as good as cut 4 me got, i'm close to j0rdan in that i think the album contains scattered interesting sounds and she's got a nice voice but the beats are largely hugely awkward and it rarely coheres song-wise - all in all just a bit dissatisfying. i'm less excited about her future b/c i'm basically off the night slugs/fade to mind bus at this point. not what they were. the rhetoric and disproportionate attention afforded this album because of ~positioning was obviously aggravating

I like cooly g, I didn't hear this yet. I'm 0/0 in this poll for just having heard the albums in the 1st place let alone voting. Lots to catch up on.

ok some excellent stuff from the metal poll has made it when I didn't think it would. Well done everyone. Also yay bill callahan.

i should think so! studio's "out there" is about as good as beardo disco gets really (nb: 15 mins long but all awesome)
thx! it's like the "mother sky" of beardo disco, then? ;)
15 min long sounds just fine to me tbh

15 mins sounds too short!

i voted for gorguts, they pretty much tower over their little corner of metal

ll "Out There" is seriously one of the most amazing things released in the last decade imo

yeah "floor show" is amazing. the beat ^_^

I could see Can and Faust fans digging "Out There". it's not krautrock, but it is pretty cosmic

I don't like death metal much but love the new Gorguts. They've moved outside the genre once again to stake a claim as their own thing.

re: cut4me, I thought the combination of the beats with kelela's voice was mostly very beautiful. the production on this is just amazing....the louder I turn it up the better it sounds

http://i.imgur.com/rBbGti9.jpg?1

(tie) 68 CUT COPY Free Your Mind (295 points, 10 votes)

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lol for a second I thought I was reading why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Uhh…a Cut Copy album came out last year?

Oh look it's a fourth Cut Copy album.

ha, I was gonna be like "they still exist?"

gonna listen to "free your mind" by en vogue instead b/c who can even muster up an iota of shit to give about cut copy again

i didn't know they had an album either. terrible cover!

laziest cover of the thread so far obv, which might be the most interesting thing they've ever done