Best Of The Year Lists 2013

[jlobban]

there's still a few things that came out i haven't given enough time to, but for now:

 

Full Lengths:
1. inotdance - Thought Leader (stupid band name, ridiculously good record)
2. Deafheaven - Sunbather
3. Centuries - Taedium Vitae
4. Deathrite - Into Extinction
5. Rosetta - The Anaesthete
6. Hierophant - Great Mother : Holy Monster
7. Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
8. Children of God - We Set Fire To The Sky
9. Jungbluth - Part Ache
10. Hollow Tongue - Godsnakes

Honorable Mentions
11. Ruined Families - Blank Language
12. Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole
13. Coke Bust - Confined
14. Holy - The Age of Collapse
15. Year of No Light - Tocsin

Hoax LP
Seven Sisters of Sleep - Opium Morals
Hessian - Manegarmr
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Cloud Rat - Moshka
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation

Castevet - Obsian

Ulcerate - Vermis

EP’s & Splits:
1. Of Feather and Bone - False Healer - stupidly fast and mean. love it.
2. Heartless - Certain Death - sadly, their final release, but they went out with a huge bang.
3. Severe - The Gutter Sessions
4. Moral Void - Vol I
5. Young and in the Way / Moral Void Split
6. False Light - s/t (since the physical version of this was finally released this year, i’m throwing it on here)
7. ARRM - Sand / Blackwater
8. Skinfather - Succession / Possession
9. Young and in the Way / Withdrawal - split
10. Rotten Sound - Species at War

[onwardempire]

Here's my ordered list, excluding eps and splits. Couldn't quite make it to 20... 

1. 
   
   TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Ansiktet - #DENNYARNBMANNEN
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Veronica Maggio - Handen i Fickan Fast Jag Bryr Mig
   
   
   
4. 
   
   Chrash of Rhinos - Knots
   
   
   
5. 
   
   Owen - L'ami du Peuple
   
   
   
6. 
   
   A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind
   
   
   
7. 
   
   Pity Sex - Feast of Love
   
   
   
8. 
   
   Foxing - The Albatross
   
   
   
9. 
   
   TWIABP - Whenever, If Ever
   
   
   
10. 
    
    Marietta - Summer Months
    
    
    
11. 
    
    The 1975 - The 1975
    
    
    
12. 
    
    Alaska - Everything is Fine
    
    
    
13. 
    
    Into It. Over It. - Intersections
    
    
    
14. 
    
    Koji - Crooked In My Mind
    
    
    
15. 
    
    Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
    
    
    
16. 
    
    Cloud Control - Dream Cave
    
    
    
17. 
    
    Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing
    
    
    
18. 
    
    Football, Etc. - Audible
    
    
    
19. 
    
    Darwin Deez - Songs For Imaginative People
    
    
     
    
    
    

[Rip]

1. Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech

2. Mansions - Doom Loop

3. The 1975 - The 1975

4. Foxing - The Albatross

5. Deafheaven - Sunbather

6. The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk

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

8. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful

9. Into It. Over It. - Intersections

10. State Faults - Resonate/Desolate

11. Touche Amore - Is Survived By

12. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

13. Owel - Owel

14. Sigur Ros - Kveikur

15. Dads - Pretty Good EP

16. Shone - Heat Thing

17. Danny Brown - Old

18. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

19. Old Gray - An Autobiography

20. Chvrches - The Bones Of What We Believe

[suchashorttime]

i think i'm going to need to amend my list to include this Beastmilk record.  psyched to snag it from DW tonight.

[mrewest]

My list, mostly not in order, and including EPs.

Cloudkicker - Subsume

Defeater - Letters Home

Glaciers - Mirrored Through the Ancients

Russian Circles - Memorial

T/T/T - S/T

Athletics - Who You Are is Not Enough

The Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual

Lavinia - Take Shelter

Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience pt1

Kanye West - Yeezus

Moving Mountains - S/T

sleepmakeswaves - ...And So We Destroyed Everything

City and Colour - The Hurry and the Harm

I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In This House - Mayberry

Ha Ha Tonka - Lessons

[David The Gnome]

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Kevin Devine & GDB - Bubblegum

T/T/T - T/T/T

The Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual

Senses Fail - Renacer

Jimmy Eat World - Damage

Owen - L'Ami du Peuple

Dads - Pretty Good EP

Mansions - Doom Loop

[Bladewillisisdead]

1. The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever

2. Self Defense Family - Try Me

3. Drug Church - Paul Walker

4. Caravels - Lacuna

5. Crash of Rhinos - Knots

6. The Saddest Landscape/My Fictions - When You Are Close, I am Gone

7. The Saddest Landscape - Exit Wounded

8. One Hundred Year Ocean - Where Were You While We Were Getting High/It's Not Punk, But We're Getting Close

9. Touche Amore - Is Survived By

10. I Kill Giants - I Kill Giants

11. Self Defense Family - All splits and EPs they put out

12. Have Mercy - The Earth Pushed Back

13. Rob - Maniac (2012) Score

14. Old Gray - An Autobiography

 

This is pretty much just a list of 2013 releases I actually bought. I might like Topshelf Records just a little bit.

[museummouth]

1. Slow Warm Death - Slow Warm Death

2. Drake - Nothing Was The Same

3. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavelle - Perils From The Sea

4. Owen - L'Ami du Peuple

5. The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk

6. Blue Cranes - Swim

7. Tiny Moving Parts - This Couch Is Long And Full Of Friendship

8. Deafheaven - Sunbather

9. Deer Widow - Deer Widow

10. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

11. HRVRD - From The Bird's Cage

12. TWIABPAIANLATD - Whenever, If Ever

13. Their / They're / There - Self-Titled EP

14. Into It. Over It. - Intersections

15. Sainthood Reps - Headswell

16. Crywank - Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday And Everyday Is Stupid

17. Tile - You Had A Friend In Pennsylvania

18. Turnover - Magnolia

19. Grouplove - Spreading Rumors

20. Anamanguchi - Endless Fantasy

21. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation 

22. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

23. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Descension

24. Atoms For Peace - AMOK

25. Mark Kozelek - Like Rats

26. Foxing - The Albatross

27. Paramore - Paramore

28. Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting

29. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

30. Diamond Youth - Orange

31. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

32. 1994! - Fuck It

33. Tyler, The Creator - Wolf

34. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

[BWALL]

Wavves- Afraid of Heights

Arcade Fire- Reflektor

Death Grips- Goverment Plates

Defeater-Letters Home

Dillinger Escape Plan- One Of Us Is The Killer

This Routine is Hell- Howl

Touche Amore- Is Survived By

Deafhaven- Sunbather

Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind

TDWP- 8:18

[RivannaJunction]

I don't listen to a lot of bands/artists so this is basically me just listing the albums I listened to in order, but I will say, if anyone with a wider range/knowledge than myself could PM me some recommendations based on this list, I'd appreciate it.

 

1) Restorations - LP2

2) Signals Midwest - Light on the Lake

3) Lenny Lashley's Gang of One - Illuminator

4) Dave Hause - Devour

5) Off With Their Heads - Home

6) Bad Religion - True North

7) Iron Chic - The Constant One

8) The Ducky Boys - Dead End Streets

9) Transplants - In A Warzone

10) Swingin' Utters - Poorly Formed

 

Might've been reaching a little with those last three.  

[suchashorttime]

i know this was said before, but...

 

all we love we leave behind was released in 2012.

 

also,

 

SDF - try me is a 2014 release.  technically.

[toomany45s]

I picked out 10 of my favorite listens from 2013. I'm sure there are others, but it's hard to keep track of release dates.

 

-The Pepper Pots - We Must Fight

-No///Se - Beach Bathroom Bingo 7"

-Charles Bradley - Victim of Love

-Sammy Kay and the East Los 3 - Love Letters

-Heartsounds - Internal Eyes

-OFF! - Live at the 9:30

-Lucero - Texas and Tennessee EP

-Drag the River s/t

-Chumped - s/t ep

-Great Apes - Thread

[dreamover]

LPS:
1 The National - Trouble Will Find Me
2 CHVRCHES - Bones Of What You Believe
3 Arcade Fire - Reflektor
4 Phoenix - Bankrupt!
5 Savages - Silence Yourself
6 Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
7 Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
8 Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
9 Fidlar - Fidlar
10 Au Revoir Simone - Move In Spectrums
11 My Bloody Valentine - mbv
12 Haim - Days Are Gone
13 On An On - Give In
14 Sigur Ros - Kvekiur
15 Editors - The Weight Of Your Love
16 Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual
17 Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts
18 Daft Punk - RAM
19 Atoms For Peace - AMOK
20 Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love

EPS:
Best Coast - Fade Away
Pornography - 7 Minutes In Heaven
Their They're There - S/T

Vinyl Reissues:
Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High
Death Cab For Cutie - Barsuk Years Boxset
Postal Service - Give Up
White Stripes - Elephant
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me?

[WastedL1ght]

My top 15 this year:

1. Eisley - Currents
2. Anthony Green - Young Legs
3. City and Colour - The Hurry and The Harm
4. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
5. Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
6. Heart In Hand - Almost There
7. A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy
8. Touché Amoré - Is Survived By...
9. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
10.  Volor Flex - Unlit 
11. Defeater - Letters Home
12. Phaeleh - Tides
13. Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell and Home
14. Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech
15. The Story So Far - What You Don't See
 

[thebiglebowski]

Does the Lawrence arms record come out this year? I could almost put that at #1 without even hearing it first.

[Shelby]

I thought the second T/T/T EP was way better than the first but only see mention of the first so far

[mrewest]

I thought the second T/T/T EP was way better than the first but only see mention of the first so far

I'm still waiting for mine to show up so I can finally listen to it. But if you say it's better than the first, then I'm even more excited.

[Shelby]

I'm still waiting for mine to show up so I can finally listen to it. But if you say it's better than the first, then I'm even more excited.

 

The last track took noodlin' to another level. I don't see how someones fingers could move that fast.

[bigbruise]

1. Slow Warm Death - Slow Warm Death

2. Drake - Nothing Was The Same

3. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavelle - Perils From The Sea

4. Owen - L'Ami du Peuple

5. The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk

6. Blue Cranes - Swim

7. Tiny Moving Parts - This Couch Is Long And Full Of Friendship

8. Deafheaven - Sunbather

9. Deer Widow - Deer Widow

10. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

11. HRVRD - From The Bird's Cage

12. TWIABPAIANLATD - Whenever, If Ever

13. Their / They're / There - Self-Titled EP

14. Into It. Over It. - Intersections

15. Sainthood Reps - Headswell

16. Crywank - Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday And Everyday Is Stupid

17. Tile - You Had A Friend In Pennsylvania

18. Turnover - Magnolia

19. Grouplove - Spreading Rumors

20. Anamanguchi - Endless Fantasy

21. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation

22. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

23. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Descension

24. Atoms For Peace - AMOK

25. Mark Kozelek - Like Rats

26. Foxing - The Albatross

27. Paramore - Paramore

28. Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting

29. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

30. Diamond Youth - Orange

31. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

32. 1994! - Fuck It

33. Tyler, The Creator - Wolf

34. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

Damn, Slow Warm Death right at the top huh? Can't say I disagree, that album is killer. Their live sets look nuts as well.

[cwhitmuzik]

 

1. Slow Warm Death - Slow Warm Death

2. Drake - Nothing Was The Same

3. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavelle - Perils From The Sea

4. Owen - L'Ami du Peuple

5. The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk

6. Blue Cranes - Swim

7. Tiny Moving Parts - This Couch Is Long And Full Of Friendship

8. Deafheaven - Sunbather

9. Deer Widow - Deer Widow

10. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

11. HRVRD - From The Bird's Cage

12. TWIABPAIANLATD - Whenever, If Ever

13. Their / They're / There - Self-Titled EP

14. Into It. Over It. - Intersections

15. Sainthood Reps - Headswell

16. Crywank - Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday And Everyday Is Stupid

17. Tile - You Had A Friend In Pennsylvania

18. Turnover - Magnolia

19. Grouplove - Spreading Rumors

20. Anamanguchi - Endless Fantasy

21. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation 

22. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

23. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Descension

24. Atoms For Peace - AMOK

25. Mark Kozelek - Like Rats

26. Foxing - The Albatross

27. Paramore - Paramore

28. Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting

29. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains

30. Diamond Youth - Orange

31. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

32. 1994! - Fuck It

33. Tyler, The Creator - Wolf

34. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

 

can't wait to see what you do for your end of year thing on the site!

[Bladewillisisdead]

 

SDF - try me is a 2014 release.  technically.

 

 

I know they were saying January, but was there ever an "official" release date? Because as of yesterday it was released on spotify/itunes and the vinyl/cd are shipping in December. 

[suchashorttime]

I know they were saying January, but was there ever an "official" release date? Because as of yesterday it was released on spotify/itunes and the vinyl/cd are shipping in December. 

official release date is 1/7/14.

 

---"Try Me", Self Defense Family's latest full length offering, will be released January 7th, 2014 on Deathwish.

[toomany45s]

Does the Lawrence arms record come out this year? I could almost put that at #1 without even hearing it first.

I almost put "you are here" on my list, since the single came out in 2013, but the record comes out in Jan. I'll go ahead and put it on my 2014 list though.

[PC Music]

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

2. HAIM - Days Are Gone

3. Danny Brown - Old

4. Los Campesinos! - No Blues

5. Katy Perry - Prism

6. Deafheaven - Sunbather

7. Kanye West - Yeezus

8. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse

9. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

10. Zola Jesus - Versions

11. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

12. MS MR - Secondhand Rapture

13. Ask Embla - Northern Light

14. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

15. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

[mrewest]

Forgot to add these two...

jakeL - The Black Sea

Damascus - Heights