Dudecore's Annual Top 10 Albums (2013)

[Dudecore]

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)

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
capsule   [ A ]
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".

[Dudecore]

Apparently Apple feels the same way about my top pick, displaying it on the pink model of iPhone 5c

[Mikefrompluto]

Very nice. That #8 and #10 though. Fantastic. I see a few things I slept on.

[Moneekahh]

I totally agree on biggest disappointment. But where is Vampire Weekend? Not even in your nominees! Rude! 😜

[Steerpike]

I can be happy with any list that has ...Like Clockwork high up.
+1

[Steerpike]

And wait, The Dear Hunter had a new release? I didn't even know!! Shame on me

[Dudecore]

I totally agree on biggest disappointment. But where is Vampire Weekend? Not even in your nominees! Rude! 😜

I've never listened to Vampire Weekend.

[Stromack]

I see no aryreon.

[#noided]

I see no aryreon.

And for good reason.

[Dudecore]

I've never heard of them.

[Stromack]

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.

[#noided]

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

[Mikefrompluto]

Run the Jewels though. Ace.