Best Music of 2013

[used44]

What's some of your favorite albums, performances, or videos from last year?

Easily my #1 album is Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork. Best rock album of the last five years or so. It's rare for a band to put out their best album this late into a career, but this really is their best. If you're a rock fan you need to get it and listen to it in order, it's truly a vampire opera. Get it!

Here's a few tracks, out of order.

Fairweather Friends

I Sat by the Ocean

My God is the Sun

 

[danielrbischoff]

Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
http://youtu.be/_mTRvJ9fugM
http://youtu.be/ktoaj1IpTbw
http://youtu.be/81RqEnvczV8

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
http://youtu.be/7E0fVfectDo
http://youtu.be/GqeAsmNLja0

Portugal, The Man - Evil Friends
http://youtu.be/fSVwJyxeVYI
http://youtu.be/9Ucfn_gG2G8

Kendrick Lamar - That one song from Grand Theft Auto V
http://youtu.be/QjlFqgRbICY

Purity Ring - Shrines
http://youtu.be/Xqw4wo8vdY8
http://youtu.be/ddFLhQZ0t_4
http://youtu.be/yC7jt7RFZnE

Flying Lotus (not a lot of new stuff in 2013, but I discovered thanks to GTA)
http://youtu.be/3KEpb4UaAr8
http://youtu.be/CybO7XtYpdU
http://youtu.be/ZA3Ro_BqKNo
http://youtu.be/6M9EiHTLRWg

Arctic Monkeys - A.M.
http://youtu.be/jNbLINg3SrQ
http://youtu.be/bpOSxM0rNPM

Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
http://youtu.be/ESTd0AHkzlQ
http://youtu.be/T7BiRwfwUcs

And much, much more!

 

[Affen]

From new albums this year:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

Really great album. One of my favorites from their all work. Gloomy, melancholic and dreamlike. It was crowned by seeing it performed live last summer.

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

I rarely find modern prog I like, but this solo album from the Porcupine Tree leadman was an exception.

Sigur Rós - Kveikur

After a couple albums I didn't really care about they come out with this. Captivating and even a bit heavy at times.


From live shows, previously mentioned Nick Cave concert and Black Sabbath comes to mind. Ozzy was surprisingly active on the stage and they played a good amount of their old songs that I recognized.

 

[used44]

Ozzy was "singing" to a vocal track though, right? I'm sure the band was great but I'm not super interested in seeing shows with tons of lip-synching.

 

[Affen]

Ozzy was "singing" to a vocal track though, right?

It didn't seem like that. Is he known for using vocal tracks? I've seen him live once with his solo band and now with sabbath and the singing sounded live on both occasions with him doing his gibberish talk in the middle sometimes.

 

[Green_Lantern]

This thread needs more Yeezus.

 

[WickedLiquid]

I totally agree with Used.

Along with Reflektor I also loved NIN's Hesitation Marks and Atoms for Peace - Amok.

They were two albums I weren't crazy about at first but slowly began to live them.

 

[Eyebrowsbv31]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmCJEehYtU

 

[Green_Lantern]

BTW, Vampire Weekend's album > QOTSA.

 

[WickedLiquid]

BTW, Vampire Weekend's album > QOTSA.

 

[Green_Lantern]

So is Arcade Fire's.

But here's a list to keep this thread going:

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Haim - Days Are Gone
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Darkside - Psychic (possibly my favorite)
Kanye - Yeezus
The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Forgot one:
Volcano Choir - Repave

 

[used44]

I like those albums! I love love Arcade Fire. But no

Qotsa KILLED IT this year.

 

[Affen]

I knew I forgot something.

Comeback to his more classic style after few americana folk albums.

 

[danielrbischoff]

I need to check out all of this stuff

 

[Green_Lantern]

Especially the ones I listed.

 

[Green_Lantern]

Officially changed my favorite album of the year to Haim.

 

[Affen]

If you're fans of instrumental hip hop, Oddisee - The Beauty in All was another great 2013 release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDlb_TU9-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsAiuxmN-2I