ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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

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(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

poor Cut Copy :(

studio is not beardo

I'm happy to defend this album. It's way better than the artwork would suggest. They'll never top In Ghost Colours but this is probably their second best album now.

IsaacHale
Jun 16, 2012
10
This is an incredible album from Hot Chip, rivaling their defining album "Made in the Dark." It's smooth, dancey, and utterly heartfelt. I can… Expand

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WeAreTheFilter
Jul 1, 2012
9
Hot Chip

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Manik_Music
Jun 18, 2012
9
Electro-brit poppers Hot Chip have produced a expertly crafted fifth album. If the group wasn

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RomanRaifeld
Sep 18, 2012
8
Probably not their best album but melodic and tuneful one and well-produced. The tracks of new release are not huge hits but a small one I would even say chamber and even intimate.

Poll is already better than last year's. Voted for Melt Banana and Follakzoid but glad to see Oh Sees, Gorguts (which I need to listen to soon) make the cut

if there was a hot chip record last year, that's like 100% to place even though no one posting in the thread voted for it, right?

KBP to thread

the Cut Copy album is a full-on homage to the Primal Scream/Happy Mondays axis of musical nostalgia and surprisingly great, esp. after their previous one which made me want to hunt the band down and slay them

it fell off the bottom of my ballot at the last minute but I really enjoyed it

next: Holy Ghost!

Am abandoning hope for my #2 and my #7 tho xxxxp

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67 f(x) Pink Tape (300 points, 8 votes)