Best of 2013

I've decided to begin posting my best of the year lists, since I make them every year anyway. It was a great year for music for sure. I didn't write too many reviews this year however, partly because I did not have so much time and partly because I did not have that much time to really thoroughly listen to a lot of releases. I intend to rectify that this year! I will probably be spending a lot of it listening to 2013 releases..

So...

My 2013 List: (no order)

Albums

Loved/listened to a lot

Paramore - Paramore (review)

Palms - Palms

Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Descension

Karnivool - Asymmetry (review)

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (review forthcoming)

Pelican - Forever Becoming (am doing so since release anyway)

Anathema - Universal (Live) (really captures the energy of their live sound, gives the songs a new depth)

Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing (more so after seeing it live) 

 

Liked

Nothing More - Nothing More

Austra - Olympia

Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves

Puscifer - Donkey Punch the Night

Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside

Birds of Tokyo - March Fires (some great highlights but maybe not as strong as their previous album)

Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire (ditto to Birds of Tokyo)

Amplifier - Echo Street

Wisdom of Crowds - Wisdom of Crowds

Mogwai - Les Revenants

 

Liked, but haven’t listened to that much (yet)

Mamiffer and Circle - Enharmonic Intervals (For Paschen Organ)

Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury

Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest (blasphemy that I haven’t listened to this much yet, I know!)

Sigur Rós - Kveikur

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

65daysofstatic - Wild Light

Russian Circles - Memorial

Cult of Luna - Vertikal

Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty

Man’s Gin - Rebellion Hymns

 

Not sure what to say about..

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

 

Still need to listen

The Ocean - Pelagial

Tim Hecker - Virgins

Deafheaven  - Sunbather

Humanfly - Awesome Science

How to Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion

Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)

Zozobra - Savage Masters

Locrian - Return to Annihilation

Red Fang - Whales and Leeches

Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkaran

Rosetta - The Anaesthete

Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

Special Request - Soul Music

Forest Swords - Engraving

Holden - The Inheritors

Barn Owl - V

Fen - Dustwalker

God is an Astronaut - Origins

Krister Linder - The Great Surrender EP

Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob

Kylesa - Ultraviolet 

Tracks

Karnivool - We Are, Alpha Omega
Paramore - Fast in My Car, Ain't It Fun, Still Into You
Coheed and Cambria - Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant, The Hard Sell
Nine Inch Nails - Various Methods of Escape, In Two
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Anathema - Thin Air (live), Untouchable Part 1 and 2 (live)
Nothing More - First Punch
Riverside - Celebrity Touch
Puscifer - Breathe
Birds of Tokyo - Lanterns, The Others
Dead Letter Circus - Alone Awake

Live
Cult of Luna
Ilosaarirock (particularly Nightwish, Pelican, Imagine Dragons, and Sigur Rós)
DJ Shadow (surprise to me too)
Steven Wilson
Karnivool 

Looking forward to in 2014
Mogwai
Have a Nice Life
Crosses
Sunn o))) and Ulver
Wolves in the Throne Room
Jakob
Amplifier
Mastodon
Old Man Gloom
Agalloch
Palms(?)