Album of the Year

[Kacknase]

Yearly AOTY thread!

Oneohtrix Point Never - R+7


Tim Hecker - Virgins


Dean Blunt - The Redeemer


Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty


Fire! Orchestra - Exit!


Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork


Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Forest Swords - Engravings
The Knife - STH
Moderat - II
Youth Lagoon - Wonderous Bughouse

[STREEM]

I don't recall anything that blew my mind, lots of dissapointments this year sub focus, camo an krooked, rjd2, daft punk, bonobo, jay-z, kanye west's was good but not even near his best....


I'd say

Kendrick Lamar - good kid maad city

Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun

65days of static - wild light

[Reaper]

Some stuff.

[Squeak]

I'd say

It's a 2012 album

[VeganeBrodwärschd]

1. Deafheaven - Sunbather
2. Heavenly Beat - Prominence
3. M.I.A. - Matangi

Runners-up:
Oathbreaker - Eros/Anteros
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Polica - Shulamith
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Messer - Die Unsichtbaren

I felt like too much came out this year, couldn't really keep up with listening to everything.

[Simon]

[Dom]

I think that sums up my favourites this year

[Artifex]

Daft Punk - Random Acces Memories



Earl Sweatshirt - Doris



Danny Brown - Old

[VeganeBrodwärschd]

Maybe we should also start talking about why those albums are our favorite albums instead of just posting the album covers.

M.I.A. - Matangi:
Matangi is my Hip-Hop AOTY because it is versatile and ranges from experimental Hip-Hop to straight up EDM Trap. Still, it feels like a coherent work of art and excels at production. My favorite tracks were Matangi, Warriors, aTENTion, Bad Girls, Double Bubble Trouble and YALA.

Heavenly Beat - Prominence:
Heavenly Beat is a balearic Dreampop project by the former Bassist of Beach Fossils. Prominence is his second album and pretty much solidfies his sound. It captures this feeling of a hot Spanish summernight while at the same time being very introspective. Favorite tracks are Lenghts, Expectation, Stable and Prominence.

Deafheaven - Sunbather:
Deafheaven is a post-metal band which have released one of the more polarizing albums this year. Sunbather successfully combines shoegaze and black metal and essentially a complete new sound which still differs from the typical blackgaze sound. Sunbather is my AOTY because it has a somewhat up-lifting and sort of happy sound, but at the same time it creates this atmosphere of melancholy and hopelessnes. All that coupled with this overwhelming soundwall of guitars and these desperate screaming vocals make it an outstanding release of 2013. Also, Dream house is my personal song of the year.

[ostin]

My top 3:

Filter - The Sun Comes Out Tonight

boysetsfire - While A Nation Sleeps...

Falling Up - Hours

[FloW]

Kavinsky - OutRun


Daft Punk - Random Access Memories


The Toxic Avenger - Romance And Cigarettes


Gesaffelstein - Aleph


Uppermost - Revolution




All of these are french

[Dimension]

Iwrestledabearonce - Late For Nothing

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

We Butter The Bread Wtih Butter - Goldkinder

A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy

[Dom]

oh shit yeah, I forgot about A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy, thanks for reminding me

[PtRvY]

2013 was a rather disappointing year in my opinion... the albums by Chase & Status, Bonobo and 30 Seconds To Mars were all much weaker than I anticipated. Anyway, here's my list (not really ordered or anything):

Arctic Monkeys - AM


Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest


BT - A Song Across Wires


Daft Punk - Random Access Memories


Ellie Goulding - Halcyon Days


Glasser - Interiors


Hadouken! - Every Weekend


Isosine - Mashup Manifesto III


Kanye West - Yeezus


Modestep - Evolution Theory


Phoenix - Bankrupt!

[Jubito]

7 Days of Funk (Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla) - 7 Days of Funk



Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1