ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Nice album this. Honeymoon Avenue is was the highlight for me, one of the best opening tracks of the year.

when she goes doubletime on "baby i" it's just such a fucking headrush

"piano" is such an amazing pop manifesto

I could write a song with my new piano
I could sing about how love is a losing battle
Not hard (it's not hard)
It's not hard (it's not hard)
It's not hard (it's not hard)
It's not hard (It's not hard)

And I could sing about Cupid and his shooting arrow
In the end, you'll find out that my heart was battered
Real hard (real hard)
So hard (so hard)
Real hard (real hard)
It's that hard (it's that hard)

But I'd rather make a song they can play on the radio
That makes you wanna dance
Don't it make you wanna dance?
But I'd rather make a song they can play on the radio
That makes you wanna grab your lover's hand

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this is my least favorite part of the album!!! :(

boooooo also the rhythmic changeup is so thrilling

somehow she ends up surviving guest spots by MAC MILLER and BIG SEAN, to her immense credit

disappointed to find out that Mika's still getting work in 2013

bring the "still not a player" sample back to the radio w/o it feeling cheap at all was a huge fucking accomplishment too

Ten tracks is fine, who needs more than ten tracks on a pop album anyway?

Albums should have a mandatory ten-track limit really.

last two trax got deleted and they don't impinge on the album for me

"honeymoon avenue" is a really bold opener - nearly 6 minutes long and full of subtle stylistic shifts

k3v otm re: "tattooed heart". "i wanna say we're going steady - like it's 1954" is such a charming line

1955!

there's nothing charming about 50s nostalgia

i'm sure it's 1954!!!

No one went steady in 1954, come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCkAr0LPJaQ

disappointed to find out that Mika's still getting work in 2013

Yeah, I would have thought that Nate Reuss would have taken all his work now.

the duet with the Wanted guy is fine imo. the Mika one less so, but it doesn't torpedo the album for me like a lot of other unwelcome features i can think of on various major label albums.

when the second verse opens up with "you don't need to worry abouuuuuuut" is the best moment on the album

TOO LOW

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:47 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Going thru today's albums is gonna be like Branwell's "22 listens" project in one night innit ;) *a million safetywinks*

btw i recommend Ariana's Christmas EP, there's a new Babyface-penned song and a good Wham cover

http://i.imgur.com/vkfiGsx.jpg

31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather (512 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)

Spotify

booooo

just post the next one now J0rdan

oh noes a METAL album!

the song in the trax poll was hilarious

loadsa hipsters on ILM

i thought people liked deafheaven

the little bit of Deafheaven I listened to seemed okay, I didn't really get the visceral reactions one way or the other

relistening to the ariana album now and no other 2013 album made me feel so uncomplicatedly joyous. so many amazing touches, little fluttery backing vox and surprising trap snares and melodies for dayyyyyys

i enjoyed the deafheaven, nice summer album

so i hear this isn't a Metal album

deafheaven record was nice, didn't vote for it but i understand the hype

I think I only like hipster metal, which I gather is the best kind

that Gorguts thing wasn't v. heavy either, don't get what's up with the Metal kids of today

OK this is a really good record and all, but I'm hoping it ends up being a gateway record for a bunch of the voters.

idk on paper i should like a bright crystalline black metal record that also resembles screamo but there's no there there

It's a post-rock album with screaming really.

And better drumming.

usually i supply my own screaming

xp much more pompous drumming you mean

I find the Deafheaven record impossible to like. the voice and music go together like chocolate and ketchup.

i was excited for the miley album but i thought it was p terrible (wrecking ball & we cant stop excepted)

It's pretty good but kinda also the most vacuous and insubstantial album on the list.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha, nice summer album. Yeah, the kind of summer music you drift off to sleep to during a beachfront nap, only to wake up shrieking from a horrible nightmare about having your guts hollowed out by a tentacled Cthulu-type alien monster. The music is nice shoegaze, and the shrieking is, well, what it is, horrible shrieking. I don't get how I'm supposed to want to hear that.

Deafheaven is definitely one of the better things these polls got me to listen to. I understand the "it's not real metal" argument, but most "real metal" doesn't really do it for me (although I do like the Carcass album, is that real metal?).

Oh come on, unintelligible screaming >>>> most other kinds of rock singing.

Actually the Gorguts record is much better sleep music imo. xps

And yeah Carcass is about as "real metal" as it gets.

Their sound is too 'washes of pastel noise' for me, not enough rhythmic variety. What do people like about the drumming?
It is sorta disappointing that this album probably crowded out other heavy stuff that deserves (and would have!) a bigger audience imo. Oh well.

their - deafheaven

the handwringing over the deafheaven record by people this past year has been embarrassingly hilarious