Best albums of 2013 (so far)

The Greatest Generation - The Wonder Years

What You Don't See - The Story so Far

So far these are my top five. Still looking forward to a few more coming later in the year.

Streetlight Manifesto - The Hands That Thieve

Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart

The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk

Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost

Ballyhoo! - Pineapple Grenade

I'm sort of out of my element here, since I don't keep up with much current music, but I really enjoyed R.A.M. by Daft Punk.

I met this girl yesterday who fucking loves that band and kept talking about them. I guess I should probably listen to that then.

Habitual Levitations by Intronaut, all the progressive heaviness I was looking for

Devil Put Dinosaurs Here by Alice in Chains, not nearly as good as the old stuff in my opinion but a still pretty good

Heart of Oak- Anciients, a smaller Vancouver band that has some of the best guitars in modern metal in my opinion

Young Wisdom - Black Wizard, another small Vancouver band with some great stoner/desert rock

The Hurry and The Harm - City and Colour, something nice and light to break up all that metal

Aenigma - In Vain, crazy prog death metal where one song has a fucking sax solo in it

Furiosity- Monster Truck, just awesome old school rock

Sound City Real to Reel - The Sound City Players, a few songs aren't my thing but the majority are pretty great

Corned Beef Colossus - Steak, if the name wasn't enough it's more awesome stoner/desert rock

Jesus Horse - War Baby, honest to goodness old school grunge sound with a bit of a modern twist

There are also a few I haven't gotten around to listening to yet like Amon Amarth's new album, the new QOTSA, and Daniel Wesley's newest stuff.

http://youtu.be/5Z3spJ_z3Es

Tegan and Sara- Heartthrob

Easily my favorite album this year but really how could it not be considering they are by far my favorite musicians.

Top Ten or so:

• The National - Trouble Will Find Me
• My Bloody Valentine - mbv
• Daft Punk - RAM
• Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
• Kanye West - YEEZUS
• Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
• Deafheaven - Sunbather
• Savages - Silence Yourselves
• The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
• The Men - New Moon
• !!! - Thr!!!er
• Disclosure - Settle
• Kurt Vile - Walking on a Pretty Daze

... that was more than ten.

Top 5 so far:

- Daft Punk, RAM

- Dillinger Escape Plan, One Of Us Is The Killer

- Kanye West, Yeezus

- Deafheaven, Sunbather

- How To Destroy Angels, Welcome Oblivion

I don't buy many albums, so the ones I buy have to really grab me. The only one I think I've gotten is the new Anamanaguchi, which is quite excellent.

Some amazing stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet:

Defeater - Letters Home

Oathbreaker - Eros;Anteros

letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful

Holden - The Inheritors

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3

Leprous - Coal

Gorguts - Colored Sands

Sigur Ros - Kveikur

No seriously is no-one else noticing the sheer amount of different random ass artist names in this thread?

We're 7 months into the year and like two thousand different new bands and singers released albums? Is literally everyone and their sister banding up and pumping out music?

Rorie, you just gained so much cred in my book. Run The Jewels is my personal favorite followed closely by Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

I even went and saw Run The Jewels in person, both Killer Mike and EL-P just killed it, one of the best shows I have seen in years.

That's one more than me.

I'll be there at one of them, that would be crazy to spot Rorie!

+1 for the new Daft Punk album. Also you might not know it from the singles they've released so far, but the new Paramore album is really good :)

Yeezus - Kanye

Indicud - Kid Cudi

Born Sinner - J Cole

Long. Live. ASAP - A$AP Rocky

I think that's about it :/

You are all wrong. The correct answer is: Pleasure Nexus.

Clutch's latest album Earth Rocker is just amazing.

Blame grindcore.

@handsomemuffin: Yeah, it really is. Their best work since Blast Tyrant, and their most comparable one to it as well. Crucial Velocity and Oh, Isabella are such fun songs.

More people need to listen to:

• Tesseract - Altered State
• Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension & Descension
• Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
• Ghost - Infestissumam
• Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bones Vol 1 & 2

Those are some AMAZING rock albums.

Meanwhile, Palms has been pretty impressive stuff, and Lesser Key is something I am looking out for...specifically to fill my "Tool" needs until Tool puts out a new album.

Karnivool - Asymmetry.

Super looking forward to The Catalyst Fire from Dead Letter Circus here in the next couple weeks. Australian prog/alt rock is amazing.

It's not out yet, but Doris is clearly the answer.

Biffy Clyro - Opposite

QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork

@onekillwonder_: Definitely. The Face is also a personal favorite of mine from that album as well.

Anyone who hasn't said Run the Jewels is dead to me. DEAD TO ME.

My favorites so far are:

• Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
• The Ocean - Pelagial (can't stop listening to this)
• Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

These are also really good:

• Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
• Dawes - Stories Don't End
• Sevendust - Black Out The Sun

Most of you guys listen to a lot more music than I do.

"The Living Infinite" from Soilwork and "Black Out the Sun" by Sevendust are my favorites so far this year. Both are such amazing albums and some of the best work from both bands.

I've also really liked "Like Clockwork" from QOTSA, "Earth Rocker" from Clutch, "Albatross" by Big Wreck (it came out in the states this year, at least), "Fire at Zero Gravity" from 40 Below Summer, "End of Disclosure" by Hypocrisy, and Stone Sour's "The House of Gold and Bones Part 2", though I think that Part 1 is significantly better. "13" from Black Sabbath is also way, way better than it has any right to be. It's actually pretty awesome.

I still haven't checked out the new Killswitch Engage or Dark Tranquility albums yet, and probably a few others. There's still some great stuff to come, though.

@winsord: I just started listening to this Marnie Stern and it's amazing, thanks for sharing!

Defeated Sanity - Passages into Deformity

The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer

Devourment - Conceived in Sewage

The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Do movie soundtracks count? Because I love this quite a bit:

Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche

Yeah...I don't listen to new music much.

I don't keep up with a lot of music, but here's what I enjoyed this year:

• The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (high five @rorie)
• Daft Punk - RAM
• Phoenix - Bankrupt! (This one grew on me a bit, I really didn't like it at first)
• Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
• Savages - Silence Yourself

I recently listened to Strange Mercy by St. Vincent and really liked it...so that's how late I am with music.

The Golden Sun of the Great East - Juno Reactor

Final Frontier is a pretty amazing opener for an album.

Runners up for me would be OutRun from Kavinsky and Random Access Memories from Daft Punk.

The Blackest Beautiful - letlive.
The Afterman: Descension - Coheed and Cambria
Migrant - The Dear Hunter

A$AP Rocky - Long Live A$AP...I haven't listened to much music this year, but this album is pretty good.

In no particular order, albums I've found myself listening to dozens of times from start to finish:

Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion
Kanye West - Yeezus
Moderat - II
Sadistik - Flowers For My Father
Mac Miller - Watching Movies with the Sound Off

Also, stop saying Hesitation Marks when the album hasn't leaked and is over a month out.

(That being said, can't wait for my Deluxe CD!)

edit: formatting

Atoms for Peace- Amok

Loved this album its a supergroup with the producer/pianist(Nigel Godrich) and Vocalist (Thom Yorke) both from Radiohead if you listen to them, then Flea the bassist for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Joey Waronker the Drummer for Beck and R.E.M.

@dixego: Surprised anyone even followed any of those links, let alone likes Marnie Stern; really glad to hear you like it!

@crimsonjesus: I'd forgotten about the new Colin Stetson. I've only listened to it once or twice since it came out, but I did really enjoy it both times. I don't know if anything he puts out can ever touch "New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges" for me though.

@enemaems: I've been listening to that album for like 2 months straight now. Never really been a huge QotSA fan before that.

Hollywood Undead - Notes From the Underground

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Skillet - Rise

And thats all the music in 2013 that I really liked.

Black Pus - All My Relations

Author & Punisher - Women & Children

The Drones - I See Seaweed

Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty (upcoming)

Deafheaven - Sunbather

(this space reserved for new HANL or Giles Corey, whichever comes first.)

Just holding out for a new Suburban All-Stars album.

Song of the year of all years:

The new Born of Osiris is shaping up to be pretty awesome.

It only came out last week but the self titled album from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes is probably already my favourite album of the year.

J. Cole - Born Sinner

Wale - The Gifted

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal Edit: tbh i have not been keeping up with music and this is really all i have listened too, I really need to find a good website for keeping up with music (GIVE ME SUGGESTIONS PLEASE)

Last.fm ?

I went to the Wednesday show, but didn't spot Rorie. I did, however, spot Adam Sessler. It was super weird!