Music Forum / It's June...what are your favorite albums of 2013 SO FAR?

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 10/10

It's in my top 5 albums of all time

It's my #1 this year. I'd say it ranks pretty highly in my all time list too.

Been listening to Trouble Will Find Me by The National a lot lately. It's one of the few albums where I think every song is great; I could pick any one of them out and put it on repeat. (There are probably less than 10 albums I can think of that are like that for me...some include Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and most Animal Collective albums.) Same probably applies to Random Access Memories. Both are tied for my favorite album of the year.

Also, new Arcade Fire album in October! Already psyched

It's one of the few albums where I think every song is great; I could pick any one of them out and put it on repeat. (There are probably less than 10 albums I can think of that are like that for me...

i see people say this a lot and it genuinely confounds me, it seems to me you're either listening to bands you don't actually like or you're way too discriminating. if i can't listen to an album front-to-back its a bad album

i see people say this a lot and it genuinely confounds me, it seems to me you're either listening to bands you don't actually like or you're way too discriminating. if i can't listen to an album front-to-back its a bad album

I can listen to albums front-to-back no problem, but there are songs that are weaker than others and wouldn't be very good if repeated. I guess I should've been more clear; there are only a few types of songs that can be repeated over and over and not lose their edge. Now, I can listen to a whole album over and over and not get tired of it (Radiohead's Hail to the Thief), but picking out individual songs to put on repeat would be tough.

I apologize, that was a pretty badly worded post. But you do make a good point.

i wasnt singling you out pretty much everyone i know talks that way. thanks for the enlightening response

Alright, here we go.

My favourite records so far, random order:

• Washed Out - Paracosm
• Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
• Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
• Moderat - II
• Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
• Machinedrum - Vapor City
• The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
• Justin Walter - Lullabies and Nightmares
• Jon Hopkins - Immunity
• James Holden - The Inheritors
• Forest Swords - Engravings
• Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
• Brandt Brauer Frick - Miami
• Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
• Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
• Autechre - Exai
• Atoms for Peace - Amok
• Andrew Bayer - If It Were You, We'd Never Leave

I just realized it's actually in reverse alphabetical order. Surprisingly enough, only one jazz record (Dawn of Midi's Dysnomia) made my list. Maybe because the best of jazz is yet to come, being:

• Tigran Hamasyan - Shadow Theater
• Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band - Landmarks
• Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana - Mehliana
• Jason Lindner's Now vs. Now - Earth Analog

And more. The best jazz albums seem to pop up on short notice, so I can't really predict anything there. As for other genres, I'm looking forward to:

• Jackson and His Computer Band - Glow
• Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
• Arctic Monkeys - AM
• Clark - Feast/Beast

I think that's about it for now.

Of all the few albums I've listened to fully, Paradise Valley by John Mayer easily is the best of them all. Dear Marie is a masterpiece.

At this point in the year, i would say these are my favorite,

Foals-Holy Fire (my fav album of the year, closely followed by)
Wavves-Afraid of Heights
Queens of the Stone Age-...Like Clockwork
The Strokes-Comedown Machine
Surfer Blood-Pythons
Vampire Weekend-Modern Vampires of the City
Telekinesis!-Dormarion
Parquet Courts-Light Up Gold
Girls Names-The New Life
Empire of the Sun-Ice on the Dune

and of course

Daft Punk-RAM

I'm also really looking forward to-
Hiam-Days Are Gone
Arctic Monkeys-AM
Pond-Hobo Rocket

FK

AOTY so far for me:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=lpafYCv7vzA

Mosquito - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Avenged Sevenfold- Hail to the King
Black Sabbath- 13

I don't think many people are into prog on this site... But if you are, check out The Mountain by Haken. Easily my favourite album of the year.

^Eh... not really my thing. The musicianship is good, it just doesn't really appeal to me. But speaking of prog, Dream Theater's new album will be released this month and, while I doubt it will be as good as Images and Words, it will be nice to hear what Mike Mangini can actually do on drums. A Dramatic Turn of Events was pretty weak drumming-wise since he wasn't in on any of the creative process, but that's not the case with this album.

1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
3. The Weeknd - Kiss Land
4. Deafheaven - Sunbather
5. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
6. Kanye West - Yeezus
7. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
8. A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
9. John Legend - Love In The Future
10. Vampire Weeknd - Modern Vampires Of The City

Bastille - Bad Blood

Earl Sweatshirt-Doris

Melt Banana-Fetch

Another update for me would be 

 

Haim-Days Have Gone

Arctic Monkeys-AM

Peace-In Love

The 1975-The 1975

Chvrches-The Bones of What You Believe

Charli XCX-True Romance

 

FK

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories still holds my #1 after Yeezus failed to knock it off.

 

I mean, I love Yeezus now, but it took a while to get to really enjoy it, where RAM I enjoyed almost instantly. I'd say 20/20 Part 1 takes my 3rd spot. Yet to listen fully to Magna Carta Holy Grail and 20/20 Part 2.

 

#1: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

#2: Kanye West - Yeezus

#3: Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience Part 1