Be(a)st of 2013

[Pugie]

I made a top 50 list.

(included some genres)

1. Kanye West - Yeezus (rap, experimental)
2. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (disco, funk, pop)
3. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze (rock)
4. A$AP Rocky - Long. Live. ASAP (rap)
5. Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (jazz)

6. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Take Me to the Land of Hell (pop, experimental)
7. Quasimoto - Yessir whatever (rap, hiphop)
8. Rhye - Woman (pop)
9. Nails - Abandon All Life (metal, grindcore)
10. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (experimental)
11. Death Grips - Government Plates (rap, experimental)
12. Dead In The Dirt – The Blind Hole (metal, grindcore)
13. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus (post rock, electronic)
14. Synd og Skam – Center (post punk)
15. Lite – Installation (math rock)

16. Ka - The Night's Gambit (rap)
17. Endless Boogie - Long island (rock)
18. Batillus - Concrete Sustain (sludge metal)
19. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (singer/songwriter)
20. Synd og Skam - Lad mig falde ind til dig (post punk)
21. Vånna Inget - Ingen Botten (punk, pop)
22. Saigon - Ready For Romance? (indie rock)
23. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia (minimalism)
24. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (rock)
25. Julia Holter - Loud City Song (experimentellt, singer/songwriter)

26. Deafheaven - Sunbather (post rock, black metal)
27. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (rap, hiphop)
28. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (singer/songwriter, indie rock)
29. Melt-Banana - Fetch (experimental, rock)
30. Stor - Shere Khan XIII (rap, hiphop)
31. Arctic Monkeys - AM (indie rock)
32. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (indie rock)
33. Deltron 3030 - Event II (rap, hiphop)
34. Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome (doom/sludge metal)
35. Joan Of Arc - Testimonium Songs (indie rock)

36. NISENNENMONDAI - N (minimalism)
37. Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down (experimental, rock)
38. Vulcano Choir - Repave (folk)
39. Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia (math rock, pop)
40. Body/Head - Coming Apart (experimental)
41. Räd - Räd (metal, hardcore)
42. Boris - Präparat (metal, post rock)
43. A Hawk and a Hacksaw - You Have Already Gone To The Other World (folk)
44. Wolf Eyes - No Answer : Lower Floors (noise)
45. Charles Bradley - Victim of Love (soul)

46. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (garage rock)
47. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II (indie rock)
48. The Haxan Cloak - Excavation (ambient)
49. Dustin Wong - Mediation of Ecstatic Energy (minimalism)
50. Zs – Grain (experimental)

[Grrface]

Wow, that's a thorough list. Now, I heard very polarizing opinions on Yeezus, why did it top your list?

[MaxMaps]

1 - Wu Tang Clan / Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers
2 - Wu Tang Clan / Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers
3 - Wu Tang Clan / Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers
4 - Wu Tang Clan / Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers
5 - Wu Tang Clan / Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers

[skullservant]

Shit I can't even remember what I actually listened to from this year. I know Boris' Präparat was one of my favorites though

[retinal orbita]

My list is getting out of fucking control

How can people be doing these in November seriously? I need to add the fucking BEASTMILK, PHARMAKON and a few others... I still haven't even gotten all the stuff I ordered in 2013 in the mail yet... my Total Black order hasn't even shipped yet and I've got like 10 noise tapes I've barely even spun..... and I keep coming back to that ABYSSAL record, if it was on gatefold 2xLP people would losing their minds over it..... dark horse contender.... plus the BOLZER MLP I'm still working on, and I'm coming around on the CAUCHEMAR....

And I'm gonna bump the CULTES DES GHOULES to the top of my list..... fuck......

[goroth]

I hate being definitive about music, but I think Gorguts Colored Sands.

It's the kind of album I'd want people who've never gotten into metal to listen to. The composition is phenomenal and the production is great. Just put on some headphones and drift away.

In addition to Colored Sands being the best I'd also like to say that Life Sentence by Satan is one of the best albums I've ever heard. If gorguts represents what's great about more extreme metal, Life Sentence is the best partying, thrashing fun record out. Not beer swilling Municipal Waste partying, just kinda I dunno... Denim jacket, satan loving beer drinking howl at the moon partying.

[Iommic Pope]

Everything about your post, goroth, makes me want to get back into metal again.
I've been on the slooooow train for a while now. It's hard to get off.

(Left open for a TWSS)

[goroth]

[odontophobia]

I'm really enjoying that Gorguts record.

I don't think I can come up with a top ten. There are albums that came out so early in 2013 that I really liked but haven't listened to in a grip.

[Pugie]

Wow, that's a thorough list. Now, I heard very polarizing opinions on Yeezus, why did it top your list?

I think it's one of the better produced albums i've heard. Every sound is just so cool and it all feels very thought through. Also, it's innovative and playful. Kinda the same reason why I liked the daft punk record so much actually. The only "bad" thing about it is probably some of the lyrics.

[D.o.S.]

Instrumental Kanye albums would be absolutely fantastic.

[kbit]

Instrumental Kanye albums would be absolutely fantastic.

+1,000,000

[Pugie]

Instrumental Kanye albums would be absolutely fantastic.

definitely!

[Twangasaurus]

Yeah but wouldn't that pretty much be a "producers that work with Kanye West make an instrumental album" album? It's not going to end up having much to do with Kanye at all.

[Pugie]

Yeah but wouldn't that pretty much be a "producers that work with Kanye West make an instrumental album" album? It's not going to end up having much to do with Kanye at all.

Why? He produces himself.