It's that time of year kiddos! Time to mindlessly order a list of new albums I've listened to this year. This year I didn't really listen to all that many different things, a combination of indifference and "blah" releases from favorite artists of mine. I believe the winner ran away with it this year. If you think I missed anything, feel free to post it here. I mostly listen to screamo, atmospheric black metal, instrumental rock music (post rock some would call it) and anything that just kinda sounds cool. (last years list (http://imtgapp.com/forum/index.php?topic=15850.0))
The Nominees Are
All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory And Injury
Amorphis Circle
Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy
And So I Watch You from Afar All Hail Bright Futures
Arcade Fire Reflektor
BANGLADEAFY! The Briefcase
Big Business Battlefields Forever
Black Tusk Tend No Wounds
Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows
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Carcass Surgical Steel
Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation
Clutch Earth Rocker
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
Coke Bust Confined
Comadre Comadre
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
David Bowie The Next Day
deafheaven Sunbather
The Dear Hunter Migrant
Death Grips Government Plates
Deerhunter Monomania
Defeater Letters Home
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
Enabler Shift of Redemption
Enemies Embark, Embrace
Failure (EU) Perfect Isolation - EP
Grails Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 4, 5 & 6
Intronaut Habitual Levitations
jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Ca
Kanye West Yeezus
Kavinsky OutRun
KiD CuDi Indicud
Lil B Pink Flame
Loma Prieta Loma Prieta / Raein (Split EP)
The Lonely Island The Wack Album
The Mars Volta B-Sides
Mastodon Live at Brixton
Maybeshewill Live at the Y Theatre
MGMT MGMT
Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting
Mutoid Man Helium Head
My Bloody Valentine M B V
Norma Jean Wrongdoers
Obie Trice Bottoms Up
Oh, Sleeper The Titan - EP
Panopticon Vestiges / Panopticon (Split EP)
Pelican Forever Becoming
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe - Live
A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone And Echo
A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms - Live
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step - Live
A Perfect Circle Three Sixty
Pianos Become the Teeth Touché Amoré / Pianos Become the Teeth (Split EP)
Pig Destroyer Decibel 100th Issue Anniversary Show Flexi-Disc
Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume
Portugal. The Man Evil Friends
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Raein Loma Prieta / Raein (Split EP)
Robotosaurus Together Alone
The Saddest Landscape Live at New Alliance (7 Inch)
Sigur Rós Kveikur
Skrillex Leaving EP
The Strokes Comedown Machine
Totally Unicorn Together Alone
Touché Amoré The Casket Lottery / Touché Amoré (Split EP)
Touché Amoré Is Survived By
Touché Amoré Touché Amoré / Pianos Become the Teeth (Split EP)
Tyler, The Creator Wolf
Vestiges Vestiges / Panopticon (Split EP)
Weekend Nachos Still
Wolf Eyes No Answer: Lower Floors
Year of No Light Vampyr
65daysofstatic Wild Light
The winners:
1. deafheaven Sunbather
2. Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
3. Daft Punk Random Access Memories
4. Touché Amoré ...Is Survived By
5. The Strokes Comedown Machine
6. Cult of Luna Vertikal
7. Carcass Surgical Steel
8. Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting
9. Lil B Pink Flame
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
Best EP
Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation
Almost made it
None. I had to struggle to put 10 albums on the list, everyone that made it outside of the top 5 were a stretch.
Biggest Disappointment
Arcade Fire Reflektor
This album plays to none of the strengths of this amazing band. It is an album loaded with bad decisions and no one at the controls to hit "stop".
Apparently Apple feels the same way about my top pick, displaying it on the pink model of iPhone 5c (http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/deafheavenapple.jpg)
Very nice. That #8 and #10 though. Fantastic. I see a few things I slept on.
I totally agree on biggest disappointment. But where is Vampire Weekend? Not even in your nominees! Rude! 😜
I can be happy with any list that has ...Like Clockwork high up.
+1
And wait, The Dear Hunter had a new release? I didn't even know!! Shame on me
Quote from: Moneekahh on December 22, 2013, 12:50:29 PM
I totally agree on biggest disappointment. But where is Vampire Weekend? Not even in your nominees! Rude! 😜
I've never listened to Vampire Weekend. :(
I see no aryreon.
I've never heard of them.
Quote from: #noided on December 23, 2013, 02:08:41 PM
Quote from: Stromack on December 23, 2013, 09:50:00 AM
I see no aryreon.
And for good reason.
Please enlighten me as to some plbands better than aryreon then. I'd love to dissect your musical prowess.
2013 STUFF THAT WAS BETTER THAN AYREON:
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Blank Banshee - Blank Banshee 1
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper EP
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
Candy Claws - Ceres and Calypso in The Deep Time
Chance The Rapper- Acid Rap
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Darkside - Psychic
Deafheaven - Sunbather (AOTY)
Death Grips - Government Plates
The Field - Cupid's Head (AOTY Runner Up)
.love. Buttons - Slow Focus
The Haxan Cloak - Evcavation
James Blake - Overgrown
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Kanye West - Yeezus
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Melt-Banana - Fetch
My Bloody Valentine - M B V
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
Shpongle - Museum of Conciousness
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
And I'm probably leaving out some stuff too
Run the Jewels though. Ace.