[Closed] Best albums of 2013 so far.

I'm loving the Suuns new one.

Another vote for John Grant.

Quite like Steve Mason's new album - but not as special, for me, as 'Boys Outside'.

I'm enjoying The Joy Formidable right now. Must check out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new one, It's Blitz was awsum.

Depeche Mode - Delta

Their best album for a long time. As with most DM stuff the more you listen to it the better it gets.

Hookworms - Pearl Mystic and the new British Sea Power album at the moment.

All mentioned above but I'm liking John grant, Steve mason and hookworms

Also Big Inner by Matthew e white, the new Nick Cave and II bu unknown mortal orchestra

Oh and the new phosphorescent and low albums too

Major lazer- Free the universe

Tomahawk - Oddfellows
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
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Mogwai - Les Revenants
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The Knife - Shaking the Habitual 😯
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So far it's been a pretty good year

Rhye - Woman
James Blake - Retrograde
Atoms for Peace - AMOK
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Steve Mason - Monkey minds in the devil's time
Owiny Sigoma Band - Power Punch

autechre- exai
kurt vile- wakin on a pretty daze
Steve mason- monkey minds in the devils time

Another vote for Autechre - Exai. Also enjoyed new Nick Cave, Steve Mason, Death Grips.

Can't believe no-one's mentioned Johnny Marr yet, thought that would be right up the stereotypical STWer's street

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The Atoms for Peace album (Thom Yorke side project) is also pretty good

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Will definitely be checking out the recommendations for Steve Mason and John Grant (loved their previous albums), thanks for the reminder.

Exit - Oliver Schories

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For me

Frightened Rabbit .. Pedestrian Verse

Lusine - The Waiting Room

Or Juj - Walnut

True North by Bad Religion

Clutch - Earth Rocker
Cult of Luna - Vertikal

Wow, first 3 posts on here - Steve Mason, Joy Formidable, Suuns - the last 3 bands I saw live! (And Death Grips: the next one)
My faith in musical taste on STW is restored (almost!).

For me so far:
Young Fathers - Tape One
Wraetlic
Atoms for Peace
Joy Formidable

Sasha - Involv3r
Nick Warren - Renaissance Masters Series
Bonobo - North Borders

Miniature Horse Thieves - Thinking on the Next Apocolypse.
Bam Bam - Beats to Digest Dinner By.
The Inconsequentials - More of Nothing Matters.

Foals
Depeche Mode
Bill Ryder-Jones (guitarist with the coral) his latest solo album is stunning

DezB - Member

Wow, first 3 posts on here - Steve Mason, Joy Formidable, Suuns - the last 3 bands I saw live! (And Death Grips: the next one)

What are the Suuns like live? I'm going to see them next month in Leeds - really looking forward to it.

Anyone heard the Wave pictures? They were on Radio 6 last neet, impressive.

[i]What are the Suuns like live?[/i]

Marvellously moody. As you'd expect. The blokes in the band don't look like they have it in them! I saw em in a pub in Brighton about the size of my living room. Was superb.

Earth Rocker is gonna be the best album of 2013 I reckon. It's just so good. Rivals Blast Tyrant I reckon.

[url= http://open.spotify.com/album/1ltgz9uBEfE9q9j2SEsGxI ]Chelsea Light Moving[/url] is doing it for me, although I might just be missing SY.

Looking forward to new QotSA album.

What a useful thread for deciding what to try out on Spotify! Just listened to the first few tracks off the Kurt Vile album - top stuff.

Earth Rocker is gonna be the best album of 2013 I reckon. It's just so good. Rivals Blast Tyrant I reckon.

That is my thinking too.

oooohhh Death Grips. Good call *wanders off to youtube*

Some overlap and some good ideas from above

Clutch - Earth rocker
Helen Money - Arriving angels
Serafina Steer - The moths are real
John Smith - Great lakes
Marnie Stern - Chronicles of Marnia
Pombagira - Meleficia Lamiah
Cult of Luna - Vertikal

Not out yet - but what I've heard is good:
Altar of Plagues - Teeth glory and injury

+1 for John Grant

+1 for Knife. Just off to listen to Kurt Vile on Spotify - useful thread...

What tyres for listening to Spotify?

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Low-The invisible Way.Going to see them next week.

I love threads like these, as my musical taste expands futher every time 🙂

Thanks everybody!

Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing
Von Hertzen Brothers - Nine Lives
Beardfish - The Void
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato

For me it's the Foals, and Parov Stelar Trio.

Not sure if it's a new 2013 album or end part of 2012 but I heard a group called Wolf People on the radio the other day, specifically a track called Athol. I freakin loved it. The album is called Fain but I can't see it in any of the shops here. Probs have to get it off Amazon.

Check em out.

Can we have this one? I have two reasons:

1. It is (almost!) exactly 40 years old to the day
2. I have only just discovered it and it is blowing my mind!!

It's new...but also old (hence the title). Whatever...very good.

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Edwyn Collins

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

[url= http://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=_vS_By_ZZ0g&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_vS_By_ZZ0g ]Wonderful Glorious[/url]
Bet the link doesn't work so my vote is for Wonderful Glorious by The Eels. Seen them live twice this year and they played the album in its entirety, awesome.

The Union- The World Is Yours

James Blake - Overgrown

Also very excited for Daft Punk.

Clutch - Earth Rocker or the Coup - Sorry To Bother You

Clutch seems to be storming it. Will have to wrap my lugholes around it.

Listened to it about twenty times. If you are a fan, I'd say it's in their top three albums along with Blast Tyrant and Pure Rock Fury / Robot Hive.

Got tickets to see them at the Forum too 8)

Hoping to see them at the Academy in Manchester again this year. Very underrated band and deserve more than the cult following they have. I can feel a Clutch appreciation thread coming on 😀

I hope they don't get any bigger, though, as the next step up is the Brixton Academy and I hate the Brixton Academy.

Jamie Liddel

Bonobo

Mogwai

Menahan Street Band

Beach House

Andrew Bird

Girl

FaltyDL

I've heard DJ Koze is going to be HUGEEEEEE

Is the Liddel new one worth a spin then? Kinda went off him after Multiply, which was an awesome album IMO.

Debut album from Fossil Collective is lovely.

Songs are great but not sure about the band name though....

Brixton Acadamy is amazing. Feel like your taking your life in other peoples hand. Have seen Orbital there a few times and the danger just adds to the experience.

Brixton Acadamy is amazing. Feel like your taking your life in other peoples hand. Have seen Orbital there a few times and the danger just adds to the experience.

Nah!! Smaller venues are more dangerous. Ever been in a moshpit at the Underworld?

I've seen Alice in Chains and Mastodon in recent years at the Academy, and they were excellent gigs, but the size of the venue took something away. Not a patch on when I saw Mastodon at the Islington Academy on the Crack the Skye tour.

Really? Have been in many a mosh pit including underworld, Prodigy , sex pitsols, Rage against... anon.
Brixton acadamy is Raw.

This thread lacks Flume. End of 2012, but who cares.

Anyone else get the feeling that the Daft Punk LP is going to be a let-down?

Right at this precise time according to my most played tracks i've been listening to a lot of " [url= http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/70687 ]Public Service Broadcasting"[/url] , specifically [url= http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5Dpublic+service+broadcasting ]signal (3rd track down)[/url] as it has recently became my biking "hooning it" track of the summer.

I also like [url= http://soundcloud.com/sexliaison/sets/little-green-cars/ ]Little Green Cars, The John Wayne is a cracker of a song[/url]

[url= http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=kodaline&q%5Btype%5D=&q%5Bduration%5D= ]Kodaline - The Kodaline EP/Lose Your Mind[/url] is very reminiscent of Crispian Millls ala Kula Shaker and worthy of a listen.

[url= http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=chvrches&q%5Btype%5D=&q%5Bduration%5D= ]Chvrches are just freakin brill, balls out summer shouty driving music[/url] and their live gigs are worth getting hot n' sweaty for.

[url= http://soundcloud.com/mollyscourtney/sets/imagine-dragons/ ]Imagine Dragons are another good band, Demons and Round & Round are especially good tracks[/url]

[url= http://soundcloud.com/sohnmusic/t-h-e-w-h-e-e-l ]SOHN - The Wheel, you'll either get it immediately or you'll hate it[/url] , if you do get it the song will work it's way under your skin and drive you delirious.

And finally we have the [url= http://www.karlhyde.com/ ]Album of the year[/url] even though it's not officially released till monday, Karl Hyde's - Edgeland....i've heard a few tracks as a mate has been doing remixes and from what i've heard it will be an amazing album, my mate is quite excited and for him to show outward signs of emotion is something special.

Thanks for whoever was suggesting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Just listened to that on RDIO - very impressed...will start working my way thru some more of the suggestions here.

Woohoo!, what a way to start the weekend, i've got my Karl Hyde - Edgeland release a few days early

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Prodigy , sex pitsols, Rage against... anon.

Erm, "moshpit" and those bands are a contradiction in terms

funkmasterp - Member

Listened to it about twenty times. If you are a fan, I'd say it's in their top three albums along with Blast Tyrant and Pure Rock Fury / Robot Hive.

Somehow you've missed the S/T album of that list, the greatest record they've ever released!

Twohats - My top three changes quite often 🙂 to be honest, I think all their albums are great.

Bastille - Bad Blood

Have had it on constant repeat since I got it!

Not mention for BMTH yet?

Is the Liddel new one worth a spin then? Kinda went off him after Multiply, which was an awesome album IMO.

It's definitely worth listen. It's more 'Princey'/ electronic / 80's than Mulitply.

Thanks to this thread a few bits of vinyl arrived in the post today. A couple of this years recommendations and something to fill a glaring gap from the past.

clutch - Earth Rocker
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Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In the Devil's Time
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Clutch - Blast Tyrant
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Lots of other stuff worth perusing in the thread too. Hoping that Chvrches can pull off a decent album. Lauren Mayberry's voice is fantastic. Just [i]love[/i] this tune. Perfect elctro pop.

I also fancy the Public Service Broadcasting record and I'm tempted by the Serafina Steer album after seeing her a year or so back, then there's all of the other stuff to chuck into google/spotify/soundcloud and see what comes back. Great thread.

Also, we definitely need a Clutch appreciation thread 🙂

Everything Everything - Arc
Suuns - Images Du Futur
Foals - Holy Fire

^^^^Also like that Chvrches tune ^^^^ 😀

For me it eas this

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They were probably also best gig of year to date. And cant see them being beaten on that front to be honest 🙂

The Low Highway by Steve Earle

Votes for The Knife have me a little puzzled. There's some great tracks on there, but also some really really bad "experimental" shit that seems to have been made when they first bought synths!

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Saw John Grant on Jools Holland last weekend and decided to check out his album on Spotify - wow!

I'm really pleasantly surprised by some of the picks on this thread.

I'll add:
Pissed Jeans new one, Integrity's new one - [url= http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/05/integrity-streaming-new-lp-suicide-black-snake/ ]link[/url] - and the new deafhaven rekkid. http://pitchfork.com/advance/120-sunbather/

Also @Atomizer... please tell me your name is a reference to Big Black!

If you like a bit of progressive metal check out Tesseract's new Altered State, it's amazing!

Just been listening to "Book of Hours" by Cloud Boat.
Gets my vote.

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http://cloudboat.co.uk/

Seems silly to start another album of the year thread, so here's a few more I reckon should go on the long list.

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Carcass – Surgical Steel
A breath of fresh putrefaction. Just what metal needs at the moment IMO. This is getting played a lot.

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**** Buttons - Slow Focus
Somehow sounds simultaneously threatening and uplifting. Listened to it recently while driving through the Highlands on the A832 in the middle of the night… the perfect parallel really.

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Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Picked this up after enjoying his superb collaboration with King Creosote. Didn't really know what to expect, but have loved every moment of it.

Looking forward to the new Future of the Left album too, but have a whole month to wait for that.