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I'm working on a top 25 for the site, I have about 15 or so set in stone. So far it's:
 

1. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

2. Owel - Owel

3. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Whenever, If Ever

4. The 1975 - The 1975

5. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

6. Kanye West - Yeezus

7. CHVRCHES - The Bones Of What You Believe

8. Volcano Choir - Repave

9. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation

10. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

11. Mikal Cronin - MCII

12. Disclosure - Settle

13. Ducktails - The Flower Lane

14. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety

15. Captain We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled

16. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob

 

A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Crash Of Rhinos - Knots

Danny Brown - Old

Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience
Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band - Bubblegum

Koji - Crooked In My Mind

Laura Stevenson - Wheel

Local Natives - Hummingbird
Mansions - Doom Loop

Paramore - Paramore

Pity Sex - Feast Of Love

Rare Monk - Sleep/Attack

Tancred - Tancred

Turnover - Magnolia

Typhoon - White Lighter

Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse

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1st tier for me

 

Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual

Caspian - Hymn for the Greatest Generation

High Highs - Open Season

Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

Owel - Owel

 

2nd tier

 

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Russian Circles - Memorial

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires

Volcano Choir - Repave

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This is the time of year when I find all my new music by looking at best of lists from people with similar tastes.

 

The new Streetlight Manifesto was my #1. Swingin Utters and Old Man Markley were solid.

 

Sundowner was a bit of a disappointment.

 

Gaslight Anthem - Here Comes Your Man EP was really good.

 

That's all that is coming to mind at the moment.

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Tim Hecker - Virgins

Eluvium - Nightmare Ending

Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light blah blah

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Slow Walkers - Slow Walkers

Raum - Event Of Your Leaving

Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat (the last three are Liz Harris. Needless to say, I love her)

OPN - R Plus Seven

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Pelican - Forever Becoming

Odd Nosdam - Trish

Mountains - Centralia

Mogwai - Les Revenants

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Probably more I am forgetting.

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Hard to take anything else on your list serious when you put this on it. Bound 2 might be the worst song I have hard in a decade.

 

Holy shit you are a ridiculous human being Bound 2 is one of the best artists of the 2000's best songs.

 

Nothing has touched the Front Bottoms "Talon of the Hawk" for me. I need to do a proper list like I did last year. 

 

That album was such a disappointment compared to the s/t. Absolutely loved Twin Sized Mattress, but most of the rest is just mediocre to me compared to the last.

Also thanks for the posters! 

1st tier for me

 

Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual

Caspian - Hymn for the Greatest Generation

High Highs - Open Season

Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

Owel - Owel

 

2nd tier

 

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Russian Circles - Memorial

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires

Volcano Choir - Repave

I like you, I like you a lot.

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Never heard of it.  Give me a top 2 or 3 songs to youtube.

 

"Twin Size Mattress", "Au Revoir", and "Funny You Should Ask" are probably my favorites from that record.  "Twin Size Mattress" may be my favorite song released this year.  As a whole though, their S/T is way better IMO.  

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Top 5 LPs

 

1.Turnover - Magnolia

2. Have Mercy - The Earth Pushed Back

3. A Wilhelm Scream - Partycrasher

4. Down to Nothing - Life on the James

5. The World Is a Beautiful Place.... - Whenever, If Ever

 

Honorable Mentions

Iron Chic - Constant One

Better Off - (I Think) Im Leaving

Touche Amore - Is Survived By

Marietta - Summer Death

 

 

Top 5 EPs/Splits

1. Dads - Pretty Good

2. The Menzingers/Bouncing Souls - Split

3. Their / They're / There - S/T

4. Title Fight - Spring Songs

5. Old Flings / The Fake Boys

 

Honorable Mentions:

Dikembe / The Hotel Year / Modern Baseball / Old Gray / Empire! Empire! / Pentimento - Split

Departures / Moose Blood - Split

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1. Arcade fire - Reflektor

2. Owel - Owel

3. Crash Of Rhinos - Knots

4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

5. The World Is A Beautiful Place - Whenever, if ever

6. Restorations - LP2

7. Grouplove - Spreading Rumours

8. The 1975 - The 1975

9. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse

10. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

11. Portugal The Man - Evil Friends

12. A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

13. Balance & Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing

14. Into It, Over It - Intersections

15. Pity Sex - Feast Of Love

16. Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork

17. Banquets - Banquets

18. Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen

19. Paramore - Paramore

20. The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

Might change a little bit after a check out what I've missed from everyone else's lists.

Really enjoyed this year.

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my list this year, way more diverse than its been in quiet some time, and in no particular order


 


balance and composure - the things we think we're missing


Daylight - jar


Jay Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail

The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation


Justin Timberlake - the 20/20 Experience

Boy Sets Fire - While a nation sleeps

Converge - All we love we leave behind

Defeater - Letters Home

Frank Turner - Tape deck heart

Kanye West - Yeezus

 

there are a lot of other good records, but these are always being played

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My 2013 playlist is so small. The only things I've really paid attention to are

 

Portugal. the Man - Evil Friends

Eminem - MMLP2

ADTR - Common Courtesy

letlive. - Blackest Beautiful

Baths - Obsidian

Atoms for Peace - Amok

Tim Kasher - Adult Film

The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18

 

I need to listen to more of

 

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Protest the Hero - Volition

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Lydia - Devil

 

and all the other instrumental shit mentioned already

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My 2013 playlist is so small. The only things I've really paid attention to are

Portugal. the Man - Evil Friends

Eminem - MMLP2

ADTR - Common Courtesy

letlive. - Blackest Beautiful

Baths - Obsidian

Atoms for Peace - Amok

Tim Kasher - Adult Film

The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18

I need to listen to more of

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Protest the Hero - Volition

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Lydia - Devil

and all the other instrumental shit mentioned already

you don't listen to a whole lot of music lol
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