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| | The Bestest Albums I Heard In '013 | | 1 |  | Co La
Moody Coup
This dude's known to do pointless things like eat a bowl of peaches when 'performing' his tunes live. He's also known to pick brilliant samples from any exotic genre and remix them into cool rhythms--or vice versa. Song to check out: "Deaf Christian" | | 2 | | Pilgrim
Pilgrim
Josh White, a.k.a. Pilgrim, is a Portland-based pastor who released a solid folk album a few years back. This Pilgrim album sounds like a neo-80's, sorta jazzy at times, blend and shows his versatility while keeping the heartfelt, worshipful lyrics. I was especially impressed with the track "Forgiven" | | 3 | | Harm's Way
Blinded
Saw this Chi-town xcore band for the second time, this year. They pack the biggest punch in this short EP--it's both powerful and intricate enough in my opinion to keep it from being a nondescript hardcore album. "Blind Stare" ain't bad | | 4 |  | James Blake
Overgrown
"Retrograde". That's all. And the rest of the album. This dude can sing, produce, and gives T-Pain a run for his money with 'making it okay to use autotune'. | | 5 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
Somewhat of a paradox, this is actually uplifting black metal. It's post-post metal. If I didn't use 'post' enough yet...I'll still post this as post-black metal. In other words, it has inhumanly fast drums, tremelo guitar riffs, and spiritual sound clips so basically it's like Godspeed You! Black Emperor meets Wolves in the Throne Room, but seriously it's good enough to stand on its own. No recommended track. | | 6 |  | Listener
Time is a Machine
After I saw a Listener show a couple years ago, he told me I was a good listener. I guess that's reason enough to give an honest listen to his new album, for me, even more so after his excellent previous album. Time is a Machine contains a mix of doom metal, freestyle poetry, indie-folk, and whatever other style/song structure he and his bandmates feel like doing. It's refreshing for that reason--listen to "Not Today" or "Good News First" | | 7 |  | Earl Sweatshirt
Doris
I quickly became agitated with the loud-mouths in and hype surrounding Odd Future, but I gotta hand it to them as rappers, as poets--and I think Earl takes the lead with this release. Some of the beats are reminiscent of Wu-Tang's: first plus (RZA is on a track), Earl's nonchalant flow is easy to follow and his wordplay has a variety of hidden meanings, the features compliment the overall effort (yes, even Mac Miller is gaining my attention finally) and even if the lyrics are often misogynous, crude, etc., it's the nature of the game. Judge the art. Listen to "Knight" the instrumental version on the album, and freestyle over it. | | 8 |  | Colin Stetson
New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Can't say much about this album, a friend recommended Stetson recently and him being a part of Arcade Fire, featuring Bon Iver on at least one track, and how he plays multi-layered sax parts all at once. Just listen to "Hunted" and you'll get the point. | | 9 |  | Full of Hell
Rudiments of Mutilation
Saw these dudes over the summer and they ruled. Played a hybrid of black metal, punk/hardcore, and also do Noise music. True rage that doesn't sound forced or like anything else in particular. Listen to any song. | | 10 |  | Misery Signals
Absent Light
This sounds considerably more forced, but still remains interesting. That is, playing light metalcore will only get you so far in my book. This is well-produced, and even has a lot of arhythmic parts...the thing that makes this a great album is the inclusion of a cinematic-sounding theme. Some parts sound straight out of a Spiderman soundtrack, which works well for it. Generic lyrics and stale screaming, however. Listen or don't. | |
ShitsofRain
12.31.13 | there are better albums | Hastein45
01.01.14 | I still don`t understand what the fuck post-metal means or is. | Gwyn.
01.01.14 | a shit genre |
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