ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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

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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

Deafheaven album is great I've decided.jeez ilm get over metal vocals already please. The music is much prettier and better made than a lot of post rock too.

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

i kind of agree, except it's better than description makes it sound.

nah that's about right imo

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30 BURIAL Rival Dealer EP (526 points, 20 votes)

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I'm pretty over metal vocals actually

It is sorta disappointing that this album probably crowded out other heavy stuff that deserves (and would have!) a bigger audience imo. Oh well.

We already more or less talked about this in the tracks poll. I'd prefer it if it wasn't for the Channel 4 youth drama samples.

I love Sunbather and I love Alcest and I LOVE Lantlos and I love Filosofem. It's all good. It's far better than it's peers in post-rock than in black metal, though.

I also love Rival Dealer.

love "Hiders," cool on the rest

I'd prefer it if it wasn't for the Channel 4 youth drama samples.

i feel this way about Channel 4

I'm p much the same xp

burial is terrible, that is my opinion

ha. didn't vote for this but like i said on the trax poll, the first burial music that i've properly loved or that has moved me at all. it's the moment when the cheesy xmas piano straight out of "stay another day" comes in that i realised it was going to be good. a heartwarming christmas coming out story! actual ideas and emotion from someone who could have made the same EP over and over again to be lapped up by his fanboys, instead he puts out something that seemed to cause real consternation among them. glad he finally justified himself.

We already more or less talked about this in the tracks poll. I'd prefer it if it wasn't for the Channel 4 youth drama samples.

dude these are integral to the narrative

perhaps could've done without the entire lana wachowski speech at the end i guess

Earlier this year I was trying to make some more inroads on black metal (via the rolling metal thread - thanks again guys!). One day I was walking around with some metal in my head and thinking to myself that maybe what black metal needed was some more upbeat, positive vibes and colorful album covers. Aaaaand I guess somebody beat me to it.

Great EP that I didn't vote for because I limited my list to LPs. Surprised that the title track was the one people voted for in the other pill when to me the second two are more exciting / interesting.

The other poll*, I should say.

I like all types of metal vocals in limited doses, cookie monster, growling, gargling nails and lighter fluid sludge, hardcore shouty, including the having-limbs-torn-from-body shrieking, but mainly with black metal that goes with it better, and in limited doses. I think in general screaming is more effective when it's reserved for select moments, not all the time. Just like if someone screamed at you all day, you would just want to tune them out. Or murder them. Certainly doesn't go well with shoegaze.

Love this Burial record, did not vote for it because it's not long enough, I prefer giving votes to full lengths for some reasons.

Also did it really cause consternation amongst burial fanboys? Seemed to be well received everywhere I was aware of.