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Best album of 2013 (so far)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    Must not forget

    James Blake - Overgown

    Retrograde song of the year for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭mal1


    **** buttons - slow focus
    Blood Orange - cupid Deluxe

    Both only released but very good


  • Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Been a pretty good year for music imo. My Top 10:

    1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
    2. Goldfrapp - Tales Of Us
    3. Savages - Silence Yourself
    4. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
    5. Molly Nilsson - The Travels
    6. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
    7. Samaris - Samaris
    8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
    9. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
    10. Arctic Monkeys - AM

    Honourable mentions:
    Arcade Fire - Reflektor (good album, just not as good as what came before)
    The Knife - Shaking the Habitual (see Reflektor)
    Washed Out - Paracosm
    Torres - Torres
    The Naked and Famous - In Rolling Waves

    Have yet to listen to Tomorrow's Harvest or the new Cults album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Been a pretty good year for music imo. My Top 10:

    1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
    2. Goldfrapp - Tales Of Us
    3. Savages - Silence Yourself
    4. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
    5. Molly Nilsson - The Travels
    6. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
    7. Samaris - Samaris
    8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
    9. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
    10. Arctic Monkeys - AM

    I'm surprised at how much I like the new Goldfrapp album, I've been lukewarm about them in the past but "Tales of Us" is a gorgeous record.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭lewisdhead


    Really rubbish at lists, but here's a few that have excited me this year:

    Mark Mulcahy-Dear Mark J.Mulcahy, I Love You
    Bill Callahan-Dream River
    Chris Mills-Alexandria
    The Heavy Blinkers-Health
    Jonathan Wilson-Fanfare
    Josh Rouse-The Happiness Waltz
    My Bloody Valentine-MBV
    Prefab Sprout-Crimson Red
    Ethan Johns-If Not Now Then When
    John Murry-The Graceless Age


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    mal1 wrote: »
    Blood Orange - cupid Deluxe

    Had spotted this - thanks for reminding me to check this out ... sounds excellent!!

    Must check out F*ck Buttons too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    mal1 wrote: »
    **** buttons - slow focus
    Blood Orange - cupid Deluxe

    Both only released but very good

    **** Buttons was released in July. :confused:


  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,738 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    lewisdhead wrote: »
    Really rubbish at lists, but here's a few that have excited me this year:

    Mark Mulcahy-Dear Mark J.Mulcahy, I Love You
    Bill Callahan-Dream River
    Chris Mills-Alexandria
    The Heavy Blinkers-Health
    Jonathan Wilson-Fanfare
    Josh Rouse-The Happiness Waltz
    My Bloody Valentine-MBV
    Prefab Sprout-Crimson Red
    Ethan Johns-If Not Now Then When
    John Murry-The Graceless Age

    preferred apocolypse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭mal1


    mosstin wrote: »
    **** Buttons was released in July. :confused:

    Apologies:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭mcgooch


    Darkside - Psychic


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭mal1


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    preferred apocolypse

    I agree but still doesn't take away from Dream River being great


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭PanaDrama


    Vampire Weekend for me.


    Got a hipster backlash with their second album but delivered a standout long player from start to finish with most band's 'difficult' third album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Repave by Volcano Choir is a really good album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    I started listening to "Shade Perennial" by Bottomless Pit this week. The band contains 2/3 of the final Silkworm line-up. I'm really enjoying it so far, one of the two guitarists plays a baritone, great interplay between them, creates a nice sound. Well worth checking out.

    I got the new Melvins album "Tres Cabrones" too, it's a fun listen if you're already a fan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    mosstin wrote: »
    It's their best since 'And Then Nothing....' for sure but there are still three or four fillers. Looking forward to seeing them in Dublin next month.

    Did you enjoy the gig?

    I thought it was amazing, they never disappoint.

    Agree with you on Fade. I like how cohesive it is, for all their style hopping brilliance it's nice to hear an album that flows together well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    smokedeels wrote: »
    Did you enjoy the gig?

    I thought it was amazing, they never disappoint.

    Agree with you on Fade. I like how cohesive it is, for all their style hopping brilliance it's nice to hear an album that flows together well.

    Best gig I've been to this year. Set list was wonderful and I love the idea of the two sets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭deisedude


    Really enjoyed the newest albums from The National and Vampire Weekend. Speedy Ortiz album was an absolute gem also


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Honourable mentions:
    Arcade Fire - Reflektor (good album, just not as good as what came before)
    Disagree with this completely, copy of my post from the arcade fire thread:

    Has to be their best album. You can see them achieving maturity as a band. Singing about the same themes as in Funeral, Suburbs and Neon Bible - love, loss. death - but there's just so much more there. In Funeral they were obsessed with (and terrified by) the inescapabilty of death, in Suburbs they avoided death entirely by retreating to their childhoods [In the backseat was the perfect link-song between the two]. Reflektor recognises the truth in that Who line, 'Let's get together before we get much older'. Very humanist. They square up to death and say bring it on! Epic stuff. Track wise, afterlife is the standout track of the year for me and awful sound is possibly one of the greatest sounds the Arcade Fire have produced to date.

    I like Vampire Weekend and the Arctic Monkey's but there is just no way they or anything they have ever produced is on a par with Arcade Fire. Definitely a band people will look back on in 20, 30 years time and appreciate as one of the all time greats, for me they already easily are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    K4t wrote: »
    Disagree with this completely, copy of my post from the arcade fire thread:

    Has to be their best album. You can see them achieving maturity as a band. Singing about the same themes as in Funeral, Suburbs and Neon Bible - love, loss. death - but there's just so much more there. In Funeral they were obsessed with (and terrified by) the inescapabilty of death, in Suburbs they avoided death entirely by retreating to their childhoods [In the backseat was the perfect link-song between the two]. Reflektor recognises the truth in that Who line, 'Let's get together before we get much older'. Very humanist. They square up to death and say bring it on! Epic stuff. Track wise, afterlife is the standout track of the year for me and awful sound is possibly one of the greatest sounds the Arcade Fire have produced to date.

    I like Vampire Weekend and the Arctic Monkey's but there is just no way they or anything they have ever produced is on a par with Arcade Fire. Definitely a band people will look back on in 20, 30 years time and appreciate as one of the all time greats, for me they already easily are.

    Disagree with this completely but I don't have a previous post with which to reference it. No matter how you dress it up, 'Reflektor' is overblown and overdone. It contains some of the worst songs they've ever recorded - how bad is 'You Already Know' - and none of their best. 'Reflektor', 'Afterlife' and a couple of others are worthy but there's simply too much filler on there.
    In 20-30 years people will wonder what happened to Arcade Fire after 'Funeral'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭6am7f9zxrsjvnb


    mosstin wrote: »
    Disagree with this completely but I don't have a previous post with which to reference it. No matter how you dress it up, 'Reflektor' is overblown and overdone. It contains some of the worst songs they've ever recorded - how bad is 'You Already Know' - and none of their best. 'Reflektor', 'Afterlife' and a couple of others are worthy but there's simply too much filler on there.
    In 20-30 years people will wonder what happened to Arcade Fire after 'Funeral'.
    Apart from the sublime Neihborhood 1 and Rebellion (Lies) I find Funeral shouty and pretentious. Neon Bible is worse,makes U2 sound as twee as Belle & Sebastian.

    Then they got really good............The Suburbs is a modern classic,and most of Reflektor is stunning-definitely one of the best albums of 2013!


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    back on topic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭One_More_Mile


    Top 10 for me, Arcade fire album is outstanding

    Arcade Fire-reflector
    Artic Monkeys- AM
    The national- Trouble will find me
    Vampire Weekend-Modern vampires of the city
    Local Natives-hummingbird
    Edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
    Phospherous-muchacho
    Iron and wine-ghost on ghost
    White Lies- Big TV
    Chvrches-the bones of what you believe

    Honourable Mentions: John Grant, MBV, Nick Cave, Villagers, Little Green Cars,Low, Sigur Ros,Kurt Vile.. Great year all told


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭nagirrac


    Reflektor by a country mile, and it's Arcade Fire's pinnacle so far for the doubters, just listen to it on repeat. Funeral is great, and a few songs on Suburbs get close, but Refector is classic start to finish. "AM" and "Trouble will find me" are honorable seconds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭dirkmeister


    It took me a while to get into Reflektor, love it now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭dream brother


    8 pages in and no one mentioning Anna Calvi's One Breathe!! Shameful!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭donfers


    8 pages in and no one mentioning Anna Calvi's One Breathe!! Shameful!!

    *hangs head in shame, considers handing in alt/indie badge, promises to do 100 hours of reading pitchfork reviews

    metacritic include speedy ortiz, money and ex-cops, all verifiable indie bands in their top debut albums of 2013, must give all three bands a listen before completing my end of year list - anyone heard the albums from the aforementioned three?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭deisedude


    donfers wrote: »
    *hangs head in shame, considers handing in alt/indie badge, promises to do 100 hours of reading pitchfork reviews

    metacritic include speedy ortiz, money and ex-cops, all verifiable indie bands in their top debut albums of 2013, must give all three bands a listen before completing my end of year list - anyone heard the albums from the aforementioned three?

    Speedy Ortiz is a grunge pop gem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Might have been listed already but I'm loving Deafheaven's 'Sunbather'. Not a fan of black metal per se but this is frequently wonderful.
    Oh and Pitchfork have spoken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Not an album but the new Burial EP is a late runner for one of my favourites this year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    best album Arctic Monkeys - AM/ Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
    best EP Eyedress- Supernatural
    For me.


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