Coachella Message Board Top Albums of 2013

[westcoastpirate]

1. Teen Daze- Glacier
2. Lorde- Pure Heroine
3. Portugal. the man- Evil Friends
4. Cut Copy- free your mind
5. Volcano Choir-Repave
6. Local Natives- hummingbird
7. Foals- holy fire
8. Blood Orange- cupid deluxe
9. aarabMUZIK- for professional use only
10. Airhead- for years
11. Young fathers- tape two
12. The Naked and the Famous-in rolling waves
13. Of Montreal- lousy with sylvianbriar
14. Kisses- kids in la
15. Emancipator- dusk to dawn
16. Rhye- Woman
17. Best Coast- fade away
18. The Head and the Heart- lets be stil
19. Midi Matilda- red light district
20. Work Drugs- mavericks
21. St. Lucia- when the night
22. Body Language- grammar
23. Pacific Air- stop talking
24. Summer Camp- summer camp
25. Holy Ghost!- dynamics

Man, lots of good stuff I would have never heard on this list. I downloaded like 10 albums this weekend from here. I'm especially digging the Kisses album.

[bmack86]

I figured I was going to ignore any list ranking Cut Copy that highly, but let us know what you find that's good from it. What's Kisses like?

[westcoastpirate]

I figured I was going to ignore any list ranking Cut Copy that highly, but let us know what you find that's good from it. What's Kisses like?

I pulled up YouTube and listened to a couple songs from each artist I hadn't heard. Every artist I checked out immediately grabbed my attention.

The albums I've listened to so far...
Teen Daze-ambient electronic music which I want to say in the realm of 'chill wave' but cleaner production
Kisses-super mellow synth pop with early 90s drum machine
Emancipator-electronic album which I think was probably heavily influenced by Junkie XL or and Thievery Corporation without the heavy world music aspect

Downloaded the album based on a song or two I checked out on YouTube...
Airhead
Young Fathers (the songs I checked out reminded me of grime ((UK rap genre)) meets TV on the Radio)
Work Drugs
St. Lucia
Body Language.

[rs.paris]

Man, lots of good stuff I would have never heard on this list. I downloaded like 10 albums this weekend from here. I'm especially digging the Kisses album.

Teen Daze is awesome. I think glacier is their best album. Kisses is a super sick band. I'm planning on seeing them next month in San Diego. If you like the music from this list, you should also check out the band Sun Glitters. Their new album Everything Could Be Fine is sooo good

[shotglass75]

Spotify Playlist on my blog below if anyone cares.

1 - Nine Inch Иails- Hesitation Marks
2 - Jagwar Ma - Howlin’
3 - Trentemøller - Lost
4 - Disclosure - Settle
5 - Booka Shade - Eve
6 - Deltron 3030 - Event II
7 - Cults- -Static
8 - Junip - Junip
9 - Savages - Silence Yourself
10 - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
11 - Local Natives - Hummingbird
12 - Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
13 - Mikal Cronin - MCII
14 - Atoms for Peace - AMOK
15 - The Strokes - Comedown Machine
16 - The Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
17 - The Polyphonic Spree - Yes, It’s True
18 - Barbarossa - Bloodlines
19 - IO Echo - Ministry of Love
20 - Phosphorescent - Muchacho

[bmack86]

I don't get how indie-minded people don't all have the new Mikal Cronin ranked near the top of their lists. Thing was one of the few highlights of the catchy, guitar-led world this year.

[westcoastpirate]

I don't get how indie-minded people don't all have the new Mikal Cronin ranked near the top of their lists. Thing was one of the few highlights of the catchy, guitar-led world this year.

This album is great, too. So much good stuff released this year.

[HotHamWater]

I have that Mikal Cronin album #23 out of 115. How indie am I?

[westcoastpirate]

Teen Daze is awesome. I think glacier is their best album. Kisses is a super sick band. I'm planning on seeing them next month in San Diego. If you like the music from this list, you should also check out the band Sun Glitters. Their new album Everything Could Be Fine is sooo good

Thanks, I'll definitely look them up.

[cutterbutter]

1. Reflektor - Arcade Fire
2. Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Versions - Zola Jesus
4. Kveikur - Sigur Ros
5. The Terror - The Flaming Lips
6. M B V - My Bloody Valentine
7. Days Are Gone - Haim
8. Lousy with Sylvianbriar - Of Montreal
9. Wolf’s Law - The Joy Formidable
10. The Bones What You Believe- Chvches
11. …Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age
12. Yeezus - Kanye West
13. The Hands That Thieve - Streetlight Manifesto
14. Lysandre - Christopher Owens
15. To The Happy Few - Medicine
16. MCII - Mikal Cronin
17. Settle - Disclosure
18. Fade - Yo La Tengo
19. Fuzz- Fuzz
20. Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
21. New Moon - The Men
22. Amok - Atoms For Peace
23. Seasons of Your Day - Mazzy Star
24. Hesitation Marks - Nine Inch Nails
25. The Next Day - David Bowie
26. Trouble Will Find Me - The National
27. Floating Coffin - Thee Oh Sees
28. Monomania - Deerhunter
29. The 20/20 Experience Part 1 - Justin Timberlake
30. Ride Your Heart - Bleached
31. Bankrupt! - Phoenix
32. Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
33. Sleeper - Ty Segall
34. Overgrown - James Blake
35. Tomorrow’s Harvest - Boards of Canada
36. The Beauty Inside - Dustin O’Halloran
37. Welcome Oblivion - How to Destroy Angels
38. Repave - Volcano Choir
39. Woman - Rhye
40. Beautiful Rewind - Four Tet
41. II - Moderat
42. The North Borders - Bonobo
43. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - Eminem
44. Pure Heroine - Lorde
45. If You Leave - Daughter
46. Holy Fire - FOALS
47. Humming Bird - Local Natives
48. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
49. Shaking the Habitual - The Knife
50. AM - Arctic Monkeys

EDIT: Upstream Color score is also awesome. Shane Carruth continues to surprise on all fronts.

[footixy]

42. The North Borders - Bonobo

THANK YOU!

[thelastgreatman]

Are all you jagoffs putting Push The Sky Away at the top of your lists really serious or you just trying to look cultured?

[IceyHotshot]

I figured I was going to ignore any list ranking Cut Copy that highly, but let us know what you find that's good from it. What's Kisses like?

A statement like this is just pointless.

[bmack86]

A statement like this is just pointless.

What, saying that if someone ranked an album that I found to be terribly mediocre so highly that I feel fine in personally disregarding their rankings is not truth? It's a boring album, and if it winds up in a top 10 it indicates to me that the person is listening from a very different perspective than me and that I have very little to gain from pursuing things on their list that I don't recognize otherwise.

Your statement is pointless, quite literally.

[nathanfairchild]

I'm seeing The Strokes latest album on several lists in here. Was it really that good? I heard the first single, One Way Trigger, and thought it was absolutely terrible. Was the rest of the album that much better?

[Pea]

Are all you jagoffs putting Push The Sky Away at the top of your lists really serious or you just trying to look cultured?

Interestingly enough, this was the album that got me into Nick Cave. I had never really been exposed to his music before Coachella, and during my research this was the first one that really clicked with me. It isn't high on my list, but I had to at least give it a nod for being the album that made him click for me.

[IceyHotshot]

What, saying that if someone ranked an album that I found to be terribly mediocre so highly that I feel fine in personally disregarding their rankings is not truth? It's a boring album, and if it winds up in a top 10 it indicates to me that the person is listening from a very different perspective than me and that I have very little to gain from pursuing things on their list that I don't recognize otherwise.

Your statement is pointless, quite literally.

You're engaging in the same ignorant trolling that you berated me for in the past, or you are somehow incapable of seeing that someone can like things that you dislike as well as things that you enjoy.

[bmack86]

Can you understand that, if something that I find that bland is ranked so highly, it's indicative of the fact that the person is not on my wavelength? TheKlein likes some things I like, but based on the top of his list I can fairly justify for myself that I will find little of interest in anything I'd not heard there. I think I've made it abundantly clear where my listening focus has been recently, and shit like mediocre-retread Cut Copy is far from something I care for. Others enjoyment of it doesn't affect me whatsoever, but holding it in that high regard is a pretty clear indication that we're not at the same place. Same with the new Arcade Fire.

Or you can keep taking my statements specifically asking someone who'd found enjoyable albums off such a list what they'd heard and what it was like as an indication that I'm a) a troll hell-bent on destroying the good name of Cut Copy or 2) incapable of finding any entertainment from those who differ with me. Except, you know, I was asking for potential recommendations with that caveat.

[citizenerased]

1. Lorde - Pure Heroine
2. Peace - In Love
3. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
4. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Thao & and the Get Down Stay Down - We The Common
7. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
8. The Naked and Famous - In Rolling Waves
9. Portugal. the Man - Evil Friends
10. Midlake - Antiphon
11. Local Natives - Hummingbird
12. Kanye West - Yeezus
13. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
14. STRFKR - Miracle Mile
15. Of Montreal - Lousy With Sylvianbriar
16. Cults - Static
17. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
19. The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
20. Daughter - If You Leave

[zachattacks11]

1. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
2. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
3. El-P & Killer Mike - Run the Jewels
4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
5. Savages - Silence Yourself
6. Haim - Days Are Gone
7. Darkside - Psychic
8. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
9. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
10. Kurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze
11. Lorde – Pure Heroine
12. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
13. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
14. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
15. Danny Brown – Old
16. Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
17. The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law
18. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
19. Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
20. The Knife - Breaking the Habitual
21. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
22. Julia Holter – Loud City Song
23. Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
24. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
25. Iceage – You’re Nothing

[Justiceforall]

42. The North Borders - Bonobo

YUP SMH I FORGOT THIS ON MY LIST SMH

[theklein25]

I'm seeing The Strokes latest album on several lists in here. Was it really that good? I heard the first single, One Way Trigger, and thought it was absolutely terrible. Was the rest of the album that much better?

There was hope for this record, but since they put practically 0 effort in promoting it and didn't tour, the exposure was just not there, so it will go down as a forgotten album.

[Miroir Noir]

I'm seeing The Strokes latest album on several lists in here. Was it really that good? I heard the first single, One Way Trigger, and thought it was absolutely terrible. Was the rest of the album that much better?

"One Way Trigger" was the nadir for me; there are a couple of really good songs on it, and many more unremarkable or bad songs. Some like it more than Angles, but it is their career worst to my ears. I don't fully understand why they are still a band at this point. By all accounts, it doesn't seem to be fun or particularly invigorating for any of them.

It's not an awful album, but it seems weird that it's ending up on year-end lists.

[greghead]

These lists are good stuff, guys. I've listened to maybe 6 albums released this year, these will help me start my 2013 listening.

[HotHamWater]

Are all you jagoffs putting Push The Sky Away at the top of your lists really serious or you just trying to look cultured?

It never occurred to me that liking Push the Sky Away would make someone think they're cultured. Interesting.

[mountmccabe]

I will likely end up posting a list but my heart is not in it. There are a lot of songs I've loved but I've spent so little time with albums that my rankings will mean even less than they usually do. I also have several huge lists of 2013 albums to hear for the first time/get to know/reacquaint myself with but I have little drive to listen to them.

[faxman75]

Push the Sky Away will be very high on my list. It was my introduction to Nick Cave and I quickly found the Grinderman material which I love even more. The world of music is better for having Nick Cave in it. The Grinderman set at Coachella this year was one of the best sets i've ever seen at Coachella. Push the Sky Away is beautiful and even start to finish in my opinion. It will be in my top 3.

[CestLaVie]

1. Disclosure - Settle
2. James Blake - Overgrown
3. Haim - Days Are Gone
4. Volcano Choir - Repave
5. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
6. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
9. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
10. Rhye - Woman
11. Moderat - II
12. Kanye West - Yeezus
13. Lorde - Pure Heroine
14. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
15. The Avett Brothers - Magpie and the Dandelion
16. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
17. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals
18. The Devil Makes Three - I'm a Stranger Here
19. Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
20. Rudimental - Home
21. Daughter - If You Leave
22. Devendra Banhart - Mala
23. Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train
24. Mavis Staples - One True Vine
25. Foals - Holy Fire

[westcoastpirate]

I pulled up YouTube and listened to a couple songs from each artist I hadn't heard. Every artist I checked out immediately grabbed my attention.
...
Downloaded the album based on a song or two I checked out on YouTube...
...Work Drugs

Ok, so the Work Drugs album doesn't do it for me. The first couple songs on the album are fun with really bad lyrics, which are the ones I heard from YouTube, but the rest of the album is so boring and the lyrics are so cheesy I can't get into it.

[shotglass75]

I'm seeing The Strokes latest album on several lists in here. Was it really that good? I heard the first single, One Way Trigger, and thought it was absolutely terrible. Was the rest of the album that much better?

I don't know what it was. I'm not usually a huge Strokes fan but this album hit me at the perfect time and I thoroughly enjoyed it. "Welcome to Japan" I thought was fantastic.